Jacques-Benigne Bossuet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Love #Heartbreak #Doe
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Soul #Charity #Grandeur
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Death #Ignorance #Light
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Fear #Weakness #Too Much
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Life #Character #Preparation
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Life #Boredom
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.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Love #Teacher #Children
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Eye #Honor #Suffering
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Men #Attention #Reign
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Believe #Want #Spirit
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Queens #Truth #Heart
To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Self #Way #Horror
An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Beauty #Beautiful #Heart
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#World #Charity #Four
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Weakness #Weak #Appearing
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Ignorance #Calamity #Wells
Every error is truth abused.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Errors
The world itself makes us sick of the world.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Work #Sick #World

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