Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.