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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.
Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!
The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.