"He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal."
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"Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise."
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"The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!"
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"In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General."
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"So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us."
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"You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them."
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"In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it."
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"I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck."
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"If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."
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"A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground."
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"For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is."
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"I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up."
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"There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation."
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"It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world."
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"Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory."
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"In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel."
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"The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith."
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"We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds."
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"With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down."
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"Holiness sincerity, and faith."
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