Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.
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.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Law, without force, is impotent.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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.
We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
