"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength."
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"If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace."
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"He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace."
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"Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering."
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"Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere"
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"There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves."
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"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness."
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"All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself."
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"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."
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"Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear."
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"The only shame is to have none."
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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."
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"St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person."
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"All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love."
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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
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"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
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"Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness."
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