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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the sile...more