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1 " If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise. "
― Peter Kreeft , Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained
2 " Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good. "
3 " The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth. "
4 " We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God "
5 " Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn. "
6 " We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it. "
7 " But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands. "
8 " This is one reason why modern people are so unprepared for death: death is the one thing society can’t do for you, the one thing that forces you to confront your trans-social self. We live as “the lonely crowd”, but we die one at a time. "
9 " No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. "
10 " We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us. "
