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- We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Love is its own reward....
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
- 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…
- We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
- Love is our true destiny.
- Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
- When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
- One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in…
- We do not exist for ourselves.
- Today will never come again.
- Take more time, cover less ground.
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
- In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
- I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
- The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
- Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
- 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.…
- I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
- Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
- To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
- The gate of heaven is everywhere.
- As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself…
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