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"In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty."
"In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not."
""Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them."
"Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm."
"I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear."
"Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly."
"If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past"
"Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
"A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance."
"That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
"For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends."
"Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true."
"Read in order to live."
"In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose."
"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."
"Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness."
"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real."
"We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order."
