Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which these who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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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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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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