I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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!
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
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.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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.
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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.
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.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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