5 Quotes & Sayings By Jacques Philippe

Jacques Philippe was born in Saint-Denis, France on May 28, 1873. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Paris. In 1896 he became a member of the Société des gens de lettres and a member of the Société française de Rome in 1901. He is also a member of the Société Internationale d'Histoire des Emotions Read more

He began writing at an early age and published his first book, "Le Scandale" (The scandal), at the age of 26. He also served as secretary general of the Société internationale d'histoire des sentiments. His many novels include "L'Enlèvement" (The abduction), "Le Mystère de la Princesse" (The mystery of the princess), "Le Fantôme de la rue Royale" (The ghost of Rue Royale), "Les Morts Vivants" (Life after death), "La Trilogie des rues de Paris" (The trilogy of Paris streets), and his most famous novel, "Les Châteaux du Diable".

Jacques Philippe died on January 15, 1957.

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In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34). Jacques Philippe
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No circumstance in the world can ever prevent us from believing in God, from placing all our trust in him, from loving him with our whole heart, or from loving our neighbor. Faith, hope, and charity are absolutely free, because if they are rooted in us deeply enough, they are able to draw strength from whatever opposes them! If someone sought to prevent us from believing by persecuting us, we always would retain the option of forgiving our enemies and transforming the situation of oppression into one of greater love. If someone tried to silence our faith by killing us, our deaths would be the best possible proclamation of our faith! Love, and only love, can overcome evil by good and draw good out of evil. Jacques Philippe
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The highest and most fruitful form of human freedom is found in accepting, even more than in dominating. We show the greatness of our freedom when we transform reality, but still more when we accept it trustingly as it is given to us day after day. It is natural and easy to go along with pleasant situations that arise without our choosing them. It becomes a problem, obviously, when things are unpleasant, go against us, or make us suffer. But it is precisely then that, in order to become truly free, we are often called to choose to accept what we did not want, and even what we would not have wanted at any price. There is a paradoxical law of human life here: one cannot become truly free unless one accepts not always being free! To achieve true interior freedom we must train ourselves to accept, peacefully and willingly, plenty of things that seem to contradict our freedom. This means consenting to our personal limitations, our weaknesses, our powerlessness, this or that situation that life imposes on us, and so on. We find it difficult to do this, because we feel a natural revulsion for situations we cannot control. But the fact is that the situations that really make us grow are precisely those we do not control. Jacques Philippe
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Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt. Jacques Philippe