Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
Imagination decides everything.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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,...
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Faith is a gift of God.
Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, becau...
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.