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Pierre Nicole Quotes

d. 1695 France

Pierre Nicole (19 October 1625 – 16 November 1695) was one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists.

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The soul which stops at creatures delays the course of the voyage by which it moves toward God; and by desiring to enjoy them, it proportionately deprives itself of the enjoyment of God.

Essais de Morale (1753)

Sins which would terrify us if they were peculiar to ourselves alone cease to frighten us when they are shared. The sinner sleeps soundly when he finds himself surrounded by a multitude, as though God were obliged to spare him.

Jesus ... never laughed. Nothing has ever equaled the seriousness of his life; it is clear that pleasure, recreation, anything that could divert the mind, had no part in it. The life of Jesus was utterly taut, wholly caught up in God and in the woes of men, and he gave to nature only what he could not have refused it without destroying it.

Essais de Morale (1753)

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