Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.
If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.
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.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
We are never living, but only hoping to live; and looking forward always to being happy, it is inevitable that we never are so.
