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There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

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To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

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The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.

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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

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What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.

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The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

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The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.

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If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

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Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest,

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

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The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

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God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

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Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

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But any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

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We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

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The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

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Spiritual rebirth is the key to the aspirations of all the higher religions.

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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

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If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

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Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

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Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

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Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

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Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

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Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

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When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

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