Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalRead
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Interpretation
In challenging situations, hold on to positive and beautiful thoughts.
This quote by Blaise Pascal suggests that during tough times, it is crucial to maintain an inner sense of beauty and positivity. Carrying something beautiful in your heart can provide solace, inspire resilience, and help one navigate life's challenges with grace and hope.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
Say the truth even if it may be bitter.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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