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- Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we…
- The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and…
- God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
- Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant…
- Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
- In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watches expectantly for…
- We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two…
- There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is…
- Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your…
- The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this…
- The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the…
- Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant…
- Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
- A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground,…
- Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us…
- Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that…
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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