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True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?