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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet's quotes

« Faith is a grip of heart to eternal truth. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur la charité.)

« Our life is always carried away by time, which continues to elude us. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Panégyrique de Saint Bernard)

« This sadness that our faults we cause, has a special name, and is called repentance. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Some great distinction that men flatter themselves, they all have a common origin, and this origin is small. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de la duchesse d'Orléans)

« Death comes before us have learned to live. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Learn, first of all, to be not wowed happiness who does not meet the human heart. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« A warrior soul is the master of the body which it gives life. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Louis de Bourbon)

« There is nothing more ridiculous than serious in the silliness: love all these entertainment, it is a remnant of childhood. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Esquisse d’un sermon)

« Flatterers are the worst of enemies. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon)

« All flattering, whatever it is, is always a traitor and obnoxious animal. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Avertissements aux protestants)

« Mercy is as pleasant to men that a rain that comes on at night, or in autumn, temper the heat of the day or that of a burning season, and moisten the Earth that the heat of the Sun has dried. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Politique Tirée de l’écriture sainte)

« By the constitution of the justice of this life, the love of God was never able to full extinction of self-love. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sur les états d’oraison)

« Woe to the sterile knowledge that point turns to love! »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Connaissance de Dieu et de soi-même)

« We all resemble common waters... Our years grow like rivers: they cease to flow. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre d’Henriette d’Angleterre)

« The man never thinks to his coffin, which alone however measured exactly. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur l’honneur - 24 Mars 1666)

« Attention, all in all, this is what saves us. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Politique tirée de l’écriture sainte)

« Imagination helps a lot the intelligence. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Traité de la connaissance de Dieu...)

« God is laughing at men who complain about the consequences while they cherish the causes. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon)

« The view of faith seems reduced to see that you can't see anything. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (La Grande Loi)

« We hear in the funeral and words of amazement of the mortal is dead. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Hunger is always followed by its satellites: the rage and despair. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur la bonté)

« We complain about our ignorance, but it is she who does almost all the good of the world: predict, is that we are committed. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« We enter into life with the law out; We just make our character and then we will have to disappear. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Woe to the science that does not turn to love. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« This is not always the object defended, but is very often the tie that makes damnables crimes! »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon du mauvais riche - 22 Mars 1662)

« It's the naturalness of the human heart to redouble its efforts to retain the property that we take him away. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon du mauvais riche - 22 Mars 1662)

« Go up to the horror when we met. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Lettre - 3 Mars 1674)

« We believe well the cleverest when we are most happy. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de la reine d’Angleterre)

« Are we so unhappy, there is something to be defended, even in the use of what is allowed? »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon du mauvais riche - 22 Mars 1662)

« We see from experience that the rich, who all agree, is no less eager in his losses that poor, who all lack. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon du mauvais riche - 22 Mars 1662)

« The science of opportunities and the time is the main part of the business. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« The possession of wealth has invisible nets where the heart takes insensibly. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons)

« Everything is vain in us, except the sincere avowal we do before God of vanities. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de la duchesse d'Orléans)

« Piety is the whole of man. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre du prince de Condé)

« What is measured ends, and everything that is born to finish is not quite out of nothingness, where he soon back. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, reine de Grande-Bretagne)

« Discernment is the main function of the judge, and the necessary quality of judgment. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur la providence)

« It is true that that takes away from the spirit thinking takes away all his strength. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons)

« The reflection is called the eye of the soul. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Instruction sur les états d'oraison)

« The clean of the heretic, i.e. one who has an opinion special, is to focus on his own thoughts. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« The pleasure of man, is man. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Premier sermon sur la circoncision)

« It's too to be surprised to empty descriptions of painters and poets, than believing as similar as the other life and death we are them. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur l'impénitence finale)

« Women need only remember their origin, and not too brag their delicacy, after all think they came from a supernumerary os where there wasn't beauty than what God wanted there. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Elévations sur les mystères)

« That is a thousand years, since one moment erases them? »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermon sur la mort)

« Anyone know the man sees it's a book of grand design, which could not be designed or executed by a profound wisdom. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (De la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-même)

« When God disappears, it's that he's about to write. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« We need passionate men and children and the sick, by vain hopes. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Discours sur l'histoire universelle)

« A wife of Jesus Christ brings him to dot as its nothingness. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Lettre à Madame de Luynes)

« It is the largest of all the weaknesses of fear too much to look weak. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons)

« Can't take control of things with them all; It must be the master in despising them all. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons)

« Time discovers the secrets; time brings opportunities; time confirms the good advice. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons)

« If believing in God can have some obscurities, deny God is an absurdity. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Let the past in oblivion and future in providence. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« A spark of love of God is able to support a heart throughout eternity. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Lettres spirituelles)

« All of our thoughts that do not have God for object are the domain of death. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Henriette d'Angleterre)

« The Government is a work of reason and intelligence. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« I despise these philosophers, which, measuring for God's guidance to their thoughts, do author than some general order where the rest grows as he can! »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraisons funèbres, oeuvres et oraisons funèbres)

« War is such a horrible thing that I wonder how the name is not the horror. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Pensées)

« When once we found the way to take the multitude by the lure of freedom, she is blind, as long as she can hear only the name. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre pour Henriette-Marie de France, reine d'Angleterre)

« In the major actions, consider only to do well, and let the glory after virtue. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé)

« The real studies are those who learn the things in human life. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Politique tirée des propres paroles de l’Ecriture sainte)

« A defect that prevents men to act, it's not feel what they are capable. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Pensées chrétiennes)

« God is not a brand that is shared. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Discours sur l'histoire universelle)

« Where there is no master, everyone is master; where everyone is master, everyone is a slave. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (La Politique tirée de l’Ecriture Sainte)

« The proper use of freedom when he turns into a habit, is called virtue; and the misuse of freedom when he turns into a habit is called vice. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« There is always something in us that age matures not. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Goods that God promises are more assured than what the world gives. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Panégyrique de sainte Thérèse)

« Our real enemies are in ourselves. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche)

« Which is random with respect to men's purpose for God. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Politique Tirée des propres paroles de l’Ecriture sainte)

« Human wisdom can learn a lot, if she learns to keep quiet. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Elévation à Dieu sur tous les mystères)

« Health depends on more precautions than doctors. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« Human happiness is composed of so many pieces still missing. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« We're flattered to be flattered. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

« While the soul ask one thing, pleasure requires another; so the soul, become captive of pleasure, becomes at the same time enemy of reason. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbres de Louise de La Vallière)

« The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because we want them to be, and not because we have seen that they are indeed. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Traité de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-même)

« God reserves to him only the things from above; He shares with you the things of at the bottom. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche)

« O God! What is this man? What is a monstrous assemblage of incomparable things? »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Oraison funèbres de Louise de La Vallière)

« God wants us to live in the middle of the time constantly waiting for eternity. »
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sermons sur la Providence)

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