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People want to be Christians too cheaply, and consequently they are not Christians at all. Salvation has to cost, it has to cost everything, at least as far as the disposition of the heart is concerned.

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[While] there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels.... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.

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There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.

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Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

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Pasquier Quesnel

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Born: July 14, 1634
Died: December 2, 1719 (aged 85)
Bio: Pasquier Quesnel was a French Jansenist theologian.

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