Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
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.
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.
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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.
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Humility is attentive patience.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
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