It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. |
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. |
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. |
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. |
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. |
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. |
Law, without force, is impotent. |
Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.' |
Little things console us because little things afflict us |
Love has its reasons that Reason knows not |
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. |
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives |
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. |
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed |
Man is but a reed, the most weak in nature, but he is a thinking reed |