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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though los...more

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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek ...more

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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, y...more

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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

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Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him...more

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The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first i...more