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- Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
- Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed…
- All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
- The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These…
- To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
- Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
- To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is…
- Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of…
- Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
- How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
- It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,…
- When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a…
- Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we…
- All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
- All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in…
- If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of…
- If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love…
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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