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- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
- Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
- Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
- Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
- The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the…
- If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could…
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It…
- If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to…
- When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make…
- It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell…
- The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
- God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
- The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us
- We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
- Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong