Pasquier Quesnel
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Biography
Pasquier Quesnel, CO was a French Jansenist theologian.
"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."
"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."
"Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it encroaches upon the rights of others."