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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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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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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

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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