Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Devotion

• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Son, Love Is

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mentira, Mente, Ateísmo

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

• Una mujer es a veces fugitiva, irracional, indeterminable, ilógica y contradictoria. Hay que ser muy indulgente y prudente con ella, porque puede provocar innumerables males sin saberlo. Capaz de todo tipo de devoción y de todo tipo de traición, monstruo incomprensible, elevado a la segunda potencia, es a la vez el deleite y el terror del hombre.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Women, Knowing, Evil

• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Angel, Men

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