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.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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