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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

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Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him...more

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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought ...more

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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religio...more

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

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There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.