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.
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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