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Pasquier Quesnel Quotes

d. 1719 France

Pasquier Quesnel (14 July 1634 – 2 December 1719) was a French Jansenist theologian.

France
Theologians

Also known as: Quesnel

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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.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pasquier Quesnel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.