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- I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to…
- Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out…
- The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became…
- In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
- If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the…
- How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin?…
- All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
- Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open…
- God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God…
- Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that…
- The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made,…
- To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as…
- But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable…
- Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
- Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
- If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no…
- All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right…
- Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He…
- Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a…
- If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be…
- We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
- When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a…
- Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy.…
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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