- Great Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is somewhat surprising that collections of the 'hundred best books,' which usually begin with the Bible and generally include Marcus Aurelius, should give no place to the Acts of the General Councils, though mere literary works have done little beyond filling vacant hours, and these Acts have renewed the face of the earth.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020