"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
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"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
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"All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms."
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"If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?"
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"It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!"
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"The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."
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"Little things console us because little things afflict us."
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"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God."
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"There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in."
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"It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is."
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"Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts."
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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
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"A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us."
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"Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go."
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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy."
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"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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"The best defense against logic is ignorance."
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