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- Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
- Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is…
- That's all an angel is....an idea of God.
- The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an…
- It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God…
- The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the…
- God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
- If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not…
- All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you
- Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
- God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as…
- In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for…
- Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors,…
- A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware…
- Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every…
- The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
- And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is…
- There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
- To the quiet mind all things are possible.
- What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all.…
- Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses;…
- Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
- Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
- The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow…
- The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the…
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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
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- 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