“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
— Blaise Pascal
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
“Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
“Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.”
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
“I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.”
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.”
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
“Faith is a gift of God.”
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.”
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”
“Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.”
“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”
“I know whom I have believed.”
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
“Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
“If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.”
“Imagination decides everything.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.”
“Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”
“The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”
“The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.”
“To understand is to forgive.”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
“It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.”
“Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.”
“The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.”
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
“You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.”
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”
“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
“Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.”
“The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.”
“Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.”
“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
“If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn’t find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.”
“If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.”
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”
“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
“Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”
“Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.”
“Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
“We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.”
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
“Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
“Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.”
“God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.”
“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
“By thought I embrace the universe.”
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.”
“Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
“Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.”
“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”
“We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”
“If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.”
“Man is neither angel nor beast.”
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.”
“The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.”
“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”
“The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.”
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
“It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.”
“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
“Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
“Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”
“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
“Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.”
“All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.”
“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
“For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.”
“We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.”
“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”
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