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- We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
- We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we…
- To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
- At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark…
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting…
- When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- 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.…
- Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
- 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,…
- Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom…
- The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks…
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