"If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell."
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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, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed."
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Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it is true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing."
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"Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him."
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"We never love a person, but only qualities."
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"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
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"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."
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"Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences."
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"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others."
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"All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room."
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"The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble."
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"We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike."
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"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
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"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."
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"What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem."
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"Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough."
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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
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"Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality."
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"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
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"Kind words produce their images on men's souls"
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"Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness."
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"All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice."
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""Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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"Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force."
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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
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"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
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"Unless we love the truth we cannot know it."
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"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits"
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"Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought."
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is."
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
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"A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once."
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"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
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"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
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"The best defense against logic is ignorance."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness."
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"No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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Nationality: French |
Born: June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Famous As:
Philosopher, Mathematician, Physicist,Writer, Inventor and Catholic Theologian.
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