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- To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to…
- She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not…
- Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that…
- ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
- The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out…
- I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
- My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
- That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all…
- Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours…
- Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
- The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power…
- And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths,…
- We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
- Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a…
- Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and…
- Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something…
- Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after,…
- When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process.…
- There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not recognize…
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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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- 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