7 Honore de Balzac Quotes on Spirituality

Honore de Balzac quotes on spirituality

9. Vous savez quelles sont mes religions. Je ne suis point orthodoxe et ne crois pas a l'Eglise romaine. Je trouve que s'il ya quelque plan digne du sien, ce sont les transformations humaines faisant marcher l'etre vers des zones inconnues. C'est la loi des creations qui nous sont inferieures: ce doit etre la loi des creations superieures. Le swedenborgisme, qui n'est qu'une repetition, dans le sens chretien, d'anciennes idees, est ma religion, avec l'augmentation que j'y fais de l'incomprehensibilite de Dieu.

38. Le bonheur ne vient-il donc pas de l'ame?

58. If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance. Man does not create forces; he employs the only force that exists and which includes all others, namely Motion, the breath incomprehensible of the sovereign Maker of the universe.

59. Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

60. Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

63. Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things have a voice for the Spirit.

64. Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.