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- Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
- 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…
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- 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…
- On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is…
- 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…
- We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he…
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
- 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…
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
- 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…
- The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most…
- 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…
- To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved…
- The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
- I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
- All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and…
- The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior…
- The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation…
- Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be…
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