"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
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"Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself."
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"No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing."
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"There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair."
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"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."
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"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
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"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"The gospel to me is simply irresistible."
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"Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race."
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"The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice."
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"There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man."
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"All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you."
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"Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness."
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"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves."
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"If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister"
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"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
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"Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still."
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"Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it."
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"[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain."
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"When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."
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