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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.


Blaise Pascal

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HENRY FIELDING There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road t...
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JAN HUS We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as th...
R.C. SPROUL Spiritually the man is just wonderful. We believe in Jesus Christ and that influences our lives.
KATHY THOMAS By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Happiness is often hidden in misery; light appears brighter in darkness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN FRANCIS I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m...
JOSH BILLINGS Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into ...
ANONYMOUS What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfacti...
KELLY MINTER There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
BIBLE To love one another as He loves us, is the
true Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is love that ki...
TED ROBERTS Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 Here [in the Gospel...
REGINALD FULLER This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating h...
ADAM CLARKE Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, ...
JOSH BILLINGS Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, / To the saints and ...
BIBLE If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself; it cannot stand against Jesus Chr...
FELIX WANTANG The one help we all need is given to us freely though the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Having faith in...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, / Pre...
BIBLE Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did lie...
MILES COVERDALE But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both n...
BIBLE Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of cha...
MOTHER THERESA A person should refrain from all those things that take him towards fallacy, misery, ignorance and d...
ATHARVA VEDA God is far away only from them that have never come to Him through Jesus Christ
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto hi...
BIBLE Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol...
MATTHEW HAMMOND Palm Sunday Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourse...
BLAISE PASCAL The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of...
BLAISE PASCAL A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- ...
LYMAN ABBOTT Happiness comes from Responsibility. Misery from Blame.
LORRIN L. LEE Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus
BIBLE The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a youn...
ERIC HOFFER Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to tru...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
BERGEN EVANS For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Ba...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The Lord Jesus Christ is our partner, helper and advocate.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Our confidence is the grace of faith in Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And He that made man for love, by the same love He would restore man to the same bliss, and overpass...
JULIAN OF NORWICH A daily conviction that Jesus Christ is alive draws our hearts closer to Him to believe that He is a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let u...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity, when w...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...
MARQUIS DE SADE Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fel...
BIBLE Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casua...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Belief in God through Christ is th...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.
ROBERT MUNGER Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any ...
JOHN WYCLIFFE I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
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C.S. LEWIS In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent an...
C.S. LEWIS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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DAVID L. HATTON Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thy...
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PHILLIPS BROOKS The Blessed Saviour is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Every woman and every man is God the Father's wife when the faithful soul is joined to our Lord Jesu...
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DIETER F. UCHTDORF

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BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL