The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or not at all, dare speak so frivolously of prayer? ...
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Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which uni...
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O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!
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Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him...
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I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
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Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards. Besides, you've n...
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We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so...
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His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moments even the very best people are apt to give themse...
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A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't afraid of sin. On the contrary, she can look it in...
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The work God carries out in us,' he said after a short pause, 'is not often what we expect. A great deal of the time the Holy Spirit seems to be worki...
