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- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and…
- 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…
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- 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…
- 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…
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
- The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in…
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
- Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- 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…
- Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
- Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and…
- Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
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