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It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love…
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us…
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When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each…
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as…
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore,…
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Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man…
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The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy…
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Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury.…
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It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there…
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Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ.…
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Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who…
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Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against…
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Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where…
— Bertrand Russell
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Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
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If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human…
— John of Kronstadt
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Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries…
— Erich Fromm
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,…
— Bernard Berenson
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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
— Nikolai Gogol
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
— Elvis Costello
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless…
— Adolf Hitler
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Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
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