"It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe."
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"There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood."
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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
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"Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted."
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"Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious."
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"At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ."
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"Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation."
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"The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart."
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"True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality."
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"Look for the truth, it wants to be found."
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"All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?"
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"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
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"Man governs himself more by impulse than reason"
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"Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses."
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"[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart."
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"If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God."
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"Not to be mad is another form of madness"
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"When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose."
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"Continuous eloquence is tedious."
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"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause."
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