Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Humility is attentive patience.
Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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