What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.
Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
Don't forget to love yourself.
I must find a truth that is true for me.
Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.
Be that self which one truly is.
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