The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
To understand is to forgive.
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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