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- Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your…
- Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to…
- To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means…
- We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that…
- To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the…
- The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as…
- Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to…
- When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment.…
- A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's…
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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