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 PASCALFaith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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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.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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