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- What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and…
- Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible…
- That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling…
- That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that…
- That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine…
- I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only…
- Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
- My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to…
- In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him…
- The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking…
- Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
- Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to…
- Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly…
- Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
- We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception…
- O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i…
- Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning,…
- How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is…
- That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who…
- The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle