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The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labor. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do -- that is perhaps why so few indulge in it.
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In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born in the cave of Bethlehem.
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I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.
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The mystery of the Incarnation is very simply that of God's asking a woman freely to give Him a human nature.
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One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.
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As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In
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Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.
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When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can."
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When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could--and that would make her a perfect Mother."
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As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
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Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.
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totalidad. El sexo es biologico y fisiologico y tiene sus zonas
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The repeated use of the word "crisis" in reference to morals is interesting, for it reveals a tendency on the part of many modern writers to blame the abstract when the concrete is really at fault. They speak, for example, of the problem of crime, rather than of the criminal; of the problem of poverty, rather than of the poor; and of the "crisis in morals," when really the crisis is amongst men who are not living morally. The crisis is not ..
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reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world.
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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live."
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The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just such a perversion of the due order of things.
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God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.
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yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars--the one waged within.
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It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.
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He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.
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Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
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What is the difference between work and play?" and he answers: "Work has a purpose, play has none, but there must be time in life for purposeless things, even foolishness."
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Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.
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Our Blessed Lord used an illustration of this mystery, "You cannot understand the blowing of the wind, but you obey its laws and thus harness its force; so also with the Spirit. Obey the law of the wind, and it will fill your sails and carry you onward. Obey the law of the Spirit and you will know the new birth. Do not postpone relationship with this law simply because you cannot fathom its mystery intellectually." The wind breathes where i..
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By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.
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since lower nature had fallen through man, it was fitting that all lower nature should be reconciled to God through man. That is why there was an Incarnation instead of pantheism.
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As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.
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He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit.
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Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.
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The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.
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The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.
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The Christian law is that the higher we go, the lower we are to become. Our Blessed Lord said, "Let the greatest among you be as the least."
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hous vivons aux temps des assassins --"we live in days of assassins"--where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience." --
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relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
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A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are "spiritual Semites" because we are descended spiritually from Abraham."
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The porter who took my bag said to me: "Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop." And I said to him: "Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Would you not worry and stay awake at night? Well, that is my family. It is not as wonderful as you think."
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As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.
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The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner; the other is lonely even when he has his partner, for as St. Augustine reflected: "Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and they cannot rest until they rest in Thee."
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insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.
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a love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved-- God--without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries
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Three dominant evils prevailed--clerical concubinage, simony
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two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
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we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.
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Without Me you can do nothing"... nothing."
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