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• Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
• Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
• To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of…
• The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the…
• The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything…
• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks…
• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we…
• Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
• The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The…
• The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon…
• If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative…

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