It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Imagination decides everything.
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.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
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.
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent...
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.