 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. Topics: Believing |
| All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. Topics: Carnality
Source: Pensees,1660. |
| 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. Topics: Change, Grief, Healing |
| All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Topics: Character, Surrender |
| Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Topics: Character |
| Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Topics: Character |
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| Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. Topics: Christians |
| If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. Topics: Contentment |
| Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. Topics: Conversion, The Heart, Men |
| Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Topics: Criticism |
| Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Topics: Death, Morality, Quarreling |
| Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Topics: Death, Rest |
