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In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with Go...more

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a ...more

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I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the d...more

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True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use o...more

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We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts an...more

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There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes ...more

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Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the...more

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We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as he reveals to us...more

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Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge of God, but to ...more

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His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the pow...more

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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the differ...more

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One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see the...more