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“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”
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“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
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“Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
― Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
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