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"If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness."
"This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"
"Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself."
"Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery."
"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."
"if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing"
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man."