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- It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
- Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of…
- For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
- God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.…
- The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when…
- The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality.…
- People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us...
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we…
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility…
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it…
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
- We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already…
- There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet,…
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood