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- Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
- Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not…
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
- The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity.…
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
- Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
- The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
- Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
- To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
- The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that…
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