Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
A jester, a bad character.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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