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wisdom destiny work-out
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. Thomas Merton
wisdom sadness reality
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
wisdom may sometimes
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
wisdom ideas
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
wisdom men order
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)
wisdom book love-you
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
wisdom men succeed
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
wisdom people survival
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival.
wisdom violence cease
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
people work
Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle. David Horn
people
Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.
people simplicity single
Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring. Elizabeth Jones
people pressure weed
Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.
people roar sure wants
Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really. Martin Freeman
people proposal spent time
Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,
people
Some people are better at handling the limelight than others. Richard Prince
people yelled
Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are. Suzan-Lori Parks
people shut talk themselves willing
Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.