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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Blaise Pascal

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
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
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 beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
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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Creation God Man Spiritual
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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Beautiful Difficult Hard Time Heart Time
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
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 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
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves
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

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