• God wants that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

    —Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

  • ​​”Do not say, ‘I have kept the commandments but have not found the Lord’… Those who rightly seek him will find peace. Peace is the deliverance from the passions. Peace, as the holy Apostle says, is not found except through the workings of the Holy Spirit.”

    —Mark the Ascetic

  • He left behind his worldly understanding and took with him his faith

    —Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

  • If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconse-quential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what then would life be but despair?

    —Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

  • I expect to be rewarded for a struggle that produced nothing.

    —John Tottenham

  • The directions of Christ are not, if any one will come after me, let him enjoy himself, let him be gorgeously apparelled, let him be intoxicated with delight.

    —François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress

  • Thou wert not to me any solid or substantial thing. For Thou wert not Thyself, but a mere phantom, and my error was my God.

    —St. Augustine, Confessions

  • But in me there had arisen some unexplained feeling, too contrary to this, for at once I loathed exceedingly to live and feared to die.

    —St. Augustine, Confessions

  • I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash me thoroughly.

    —St. Augustine, Confessions

  • I understand death now. I don’t think it will do me much harm. I have known hatred, contempt, decay, and other things; I have even known brief moments of love. Nothing of me will survive, and I do not deserve for anything of me to survive. I will have been a mediocre individual in every possible sense.

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    Michel Houellebecq