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- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this…
- What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear…
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us…
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of…
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who…
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend…
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the…
- We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows…
- I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him…
- From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
- Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God.…
- Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
- I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make…
- If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us.…
- We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells…
- Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his…
- There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
- Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus…
- I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as…
- How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for…
- Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with…
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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