Francois Rabelais Quotes

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

There is no sin but ignorance.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.