"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

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"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."

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"Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything."

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"To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life."

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"We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost."

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"The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!"

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"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."

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"A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly."

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"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."

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"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."

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"True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy."

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