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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
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
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
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
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
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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Believe Faith Life Light
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Doubt Life Need Possible Reality
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
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
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
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
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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Beautiful Hurt Kindness Lips Nature
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Lying Men Thinking
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
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
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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