Action Quotes

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden ...more

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To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know...more

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The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, wri...more

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Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

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The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the jo...more

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There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act th...more

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We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face ...more

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My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

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We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in u...more

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Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead. Those who are asleep are di...more

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The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

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True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my rewa...more

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Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in so...more

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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intenti...more

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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past whic...more

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Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, sp...more

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And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.For even as...more

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The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not ha...more

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Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in ...more

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a ch...more

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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the s...more

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Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewa...more

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Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or wha...more

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There are different kinds of fear. One of the most terrible is the sensation that you are likely to become, at any moment, the protagonist in a Graham...more

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I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

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The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

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No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.