Top 15 Antonin Sertillanges Quotes (2024 Update)

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.”

1. “Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody’s friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

2. “We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody’s friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.”

3. “The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.”

4. “Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Truth serves only its slaves.”

5. “Truth serves only its slaves.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.”

6. “Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.”

7. “It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has just come off his ship; he has lost the sense of the human lot; he seems to look on you as if you were a “proposition” to be inserted in a syllogism, or an example to be put down in a notebook.”

8. “The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has just come off his ship; he has lost the sense of the human lot; he seems to look on you as if you were a “proposition” to be inserted in a syllogism, or an example to be put down in a notebook.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “The true bread had to be steeped in blood, broken with the gesture of loving sacrifice, distributed in the communion of a banquet for the whole world, and this upon a hill which foreshadowed Calvary, and like Calvary was destined to endure forever.”

9. “The true bread had to be steeped in blood, broken with the gesture of loving sacrifice, distributed in the communion of a banquet for the whole world, and this upon a hill which foreshadowed Calvary, and like Calvary was destined to endure forever.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “How puerile it would be, and what a dangerous heresy from the religious point of view, to believe that passion in its proper place is offensive to God! We are not Manicheans, that we should incline to believe that the flesh is under a curse, and that all matter springs from the Principle of Evil. Rather do we say that matter and the flesh come from God.”

10. “How puerile it would be, and what a dangerous heresy from the religious point of view, to believe that passion in its proper place is offensive to God! We are not Manicheans, that we should incline to believe that the flesh is under a curse, and that all matter springs from the Principle of Evil. Rather do we say that matter and the flesh come from God.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.”

11. “When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.”

12. “If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Whoever expresses truth expresses God, the Word, and utters therefore a word of God.”

13. “Whoever expresses truth expresses God, the Word, and utters therefore a word of God.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.”

14. “When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.”

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Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more he is obliged to fall back into arbitrary claims to authority.”

15. “The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more he is obliged to fall back into arbitrary claims to authority.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges Quote: “Genius simplifies things.”

16. “Genius simplifies things.”

— Antonin Sertillanges

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