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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
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Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
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Theology without practice is the theology of demons
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
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But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
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When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
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Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent…
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Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish…
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Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but…
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,…
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Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
— Henry George
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The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but…
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Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from…
— Thomas Merton
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
— Havelock Ellis
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Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
— Jeanette Winterson
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We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with…
— Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
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