18 Quotes by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

And just like the madness of a man who, not knowing how to sail, might take to the sea with no one to pilot him, is the madness of a creaturewho enters upon religious life without God's will to guide her.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

Every error is truth abused.

To know one’s self, one must go all the way to horror.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.