"We are made to know and love God." — Nicolas Malebranche
"We are made to know and love God."
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Nicolas Malebranche
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22 Quotes by Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche has 22 quotes on this site.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,
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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken…
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log…
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing…
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed…
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop…
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All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all…
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil,…
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself,…
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is…
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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