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- Love is its own reward....
- 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…
- At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark…
- 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…
- 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…
- God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- 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…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living…
- 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…
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- 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…
- What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning…
- 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…
- 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…
- How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
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