The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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!
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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.
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.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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.
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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.
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