“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
Good“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Men“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
Good“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”
God“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.”
Great“Imagination decides everything.”
Imagination“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
Time“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
Imagination“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
Truth“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
Love“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
God“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Nature“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
Nature“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.”
Faith“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
Men“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
Great“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Men“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
Business“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
Art“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
God“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
Faith“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
Knowledge