If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
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.
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
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