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Love consents to all and comm...

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

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Because no other could do it,...

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

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All the goods of this world.....

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

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The feeding of those that are...

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

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The proper method of philosop...

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

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The notion of obligations com...

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

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The demonstrable correlation ...

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

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Christians ought to suspect t...

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

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Only he who has measured the ...

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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As for the spirit of poverty,...

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

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We cannot take a single step ...

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

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On reaching a certain degree ...

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

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Gregorian chant, Romanesque a...

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

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How many people have been thu...

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

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A modern factory reaches perh...

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

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At the bottom of the heart of...

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

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The human soul has need of se...

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

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If someone does me injury I m...

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

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The supernatural virtue of ju...

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

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There is an easiness in salva...

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

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