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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Deep Human Live Men Sin Thinking
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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God Men Nature Religion Worth
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
We like to be deceived.
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One Liner Trust
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
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.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Heart Reason Truth
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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