We like to be deceived.
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
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