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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe ...more

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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, w...more

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MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, j...more

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Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for ea...more

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We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can stop shadowing us. Our lives are t...more