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All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.
My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.
I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.
The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity.
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.
Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.
We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager.
We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother!
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.