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"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble."
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"Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward another person, think about their inner state. Do not think about yourself, or that you want to prove yourself right. In your quiet, inner thoughts, try to find the good in others. Do not say anything bad about others, even in your own thoughts. When you interact with a person, try to find as much common ground as possible, the more the better, and try to nurture this feeling. To cease being angry with a person and instead to seek peace, forgiveness and love toward him, remind yourself of any sins you may have in common and compare them."
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"The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur."
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"God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy-the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it."
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"Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about."
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"If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."
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"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there."
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"We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different."
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."
Inspirational
"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"Progress, this great heresy of decay."
Progress
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