All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
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.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
Kind words produce their images on men’s souls.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.