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... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.
Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.
Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass
Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything.
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.