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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence
The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.
Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.
In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.
Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.
Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.
Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.