“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.”
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
“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.”
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
“Faith is a gift of God.”
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.”
“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.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.”
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.”
“The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”
“Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“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.”
“I know whom I have believed.”
“Imagination decides everything.”
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
“If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.”
“Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
“Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.”
“To understand is to forgive.”
“The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.”
“It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”
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