Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Imagination decides everything.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.