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- 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…
- A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough…
- If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can…
- Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home…
- 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…
- The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of…
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
- When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that…
- 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…
- And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by…
- A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It…
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own…
- If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you…
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be…
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