truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:22 am

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:28 am

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:32 am

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:36 am

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:39 am

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.
Blaise Pascal

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:40 am

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:43 am

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal