Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Quotes & Sayings

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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

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

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

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

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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

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

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

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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

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

Every error is truth abused. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet