9 quotes found
“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a vo...”
“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of i...”
“It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.”
“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like ju...”
“Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get ...”
