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When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God's Mercy." We… — Pope John Paul II
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the… — Chiara Lubich
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are… — Francois Mauriac
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not… — Emile Durkheim
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that… — Bertrand Russell
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how… — Sydney J. Harris
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing… — John W. Gardner
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute;… — Swami Vivekananda
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same… — Chief Joseph
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to… — Spotted Tail
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and… — Charles Alexander Eastman
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Cry my eyes out for days upon days Such a heaven burden placed upon me — Nicki Minaj
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for… — Dorothy L. Sayers
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We… — William Penn
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. — Maya Angelou
Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often… — Richard G. Scott
In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know. — Aldous Huxley
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken… — Samuel Johnson
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley
Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances… — Goswami Kriyananda
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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