Quotes by Basil Hume - Page 1

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
Basil Hume /
Society
Lost
Sacredness
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From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
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Real
Self
Weakness
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Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
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Love
Desire
Humans
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The voice that called us years ago still calls us today. Every monastic day is a new monastic beginning.
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Calls
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How wonderful it would be if the love of God was our priority and the love of neighbour flowed from that.
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Neighbour
Priority
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Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.
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Cross
Disciples
Let Us
Remind
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Add
Choices
Decision
Divine
Divine Order
Moral
Order
Preference
Reason
Depend
Personal
Private
Right Reason
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Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.
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Christ
Prayer
Clearly
Cling
Serve
Whom
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When we are truly praying, then we can begin to see Christ in our neighbour; when we are really praying, we can begin to live for the Father.
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Christ
Neighbour
Begin
Truly
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It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.
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Confidence
Healthy
Mercy
Recognise
Sinner
Love God I Am
Full
Lead
Yes
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The 'Rule of St. Benedict' makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.
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Extraordinary
Ordinary
Weak
Quite
Possible
Folk
Place
Rule
Value
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It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.
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Pray
Drawn
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The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.
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Response
Apparent
Escape
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Sad
Next Week
Remains
Sadness
Sorrow
Suffering
Week
Each One
In Fact
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I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what we can to address the specific needs which we find.
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Conditions
Social Conditions
Work Believe I Believe
Frankly
Work Look Believe
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What did our Lord do by his Passion, Death, and Resurrection? He bridged that gulf which exists between God and man, a gulf which can only be bridged by him.
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Death
Lord
Our Lord
Passion
Resurrection
God Death Man
Did
Between
Exists
Gulf
Him
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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Easter
Christ
Desert
Died
Evil
Forty
Good And Evil
Struggle
Suffering
Shall
Shared
Suffer
Underwent
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Behind every crucifix stands our risen Lord. Hidden in every suffering and pain is the joy of closer union with him. His is the victory. He invites us to share it.
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Invites
Joy
Lord
Pain
Risen
Share
Closer
Hidden
Union
Stands
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On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an excellent thing. In other words, it is the community that matters.
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Famous
Excellent
Matters
Good Thing
In Other Words
Monks
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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Confidence
God
Easter
Faith
Great
Hope
Christian
Goodness
Triumph
Ultimate
Love God Hope
Love Hope Great
Nothing
Gift
Great Gift
His
Makes
Shake
Which
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It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.
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Dislike
Bear
Choose
Cross
Equally
Ours
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Even though you find yourself in an intolerable position, one in which you think you have no right to be, accept it here and now as the Cross; then, later, you can plan how to do better.
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Cross
Intolerable
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Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God's attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this is the means whereby I can explore the mystery of God's love.
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Attitude
Depends
Realisation
Response
Love God Experience
Experienced
Explore
Toward
Whereby
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In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.
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Prayer
Response
In My Opinion
Link
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It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same.
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Dying
Starving
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Most of the early monks were not ordained. It was the pastoral work they undertook with the faithful that, over the centuries, gradually led to the present situation in which most monks are ordained priests.
Basil Hume /
Faithful
Priests
Situation
Centuries
Gradually
Led
Monks
Ordained
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Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.
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Death
Forever
Long
Love You
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The devil took advantage of Christ's hunger to tempt him to limit his concern to the relief of human need. These are vital concerns, but they cannot be the sole concern of the Church. We need daily bread; we need, too, a reason for living, a sense of purpose, a vision.
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Bread
Concern
Daily Bread
Hunger
Relief
Sole
Limit
Tempt
Vital
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We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself - how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind, and our eyes need the touch of our Lord's hand to enable us at times to even see dimly.
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Blind
Lord
Senses
Touch
Bring
Deduction
Enable
Eyes
Hand
Word
We Cannot
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Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.
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Centre
Homeless
Sight
Streets
Tempting
Big City
Feature
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Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.
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Attitude
Consistency
Needs
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