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wisdom athlete soul
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. Thomas Merton
wisdom hate mean
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
wisdom prayer pride
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.
wisdom silence
Whose silence are you?
wisdom artist alchemist
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
wisdom order evil
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.
wisdom pain fall
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
wisdom jobs believe
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.
wisdom evil temptation
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
evil reason no-reason
Evil requires no reason. Alberto Manguel
evil
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer
evil cures quacks
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. Honore de Balzac
evil contagious sublimity
Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
evil good grace hear tendencies
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. Sathya Baba
evil love money pierced root themselves
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Bible Bible
evil tolerance world
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil. Hutton Gibson
evil support world
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. Gregory Maguire
evil world this-world
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.