"We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us."
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"To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue)."
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"Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality."
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"The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it."
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"At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done"
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"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
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"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."
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"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."
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"How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?"
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"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul."
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"In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time."
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"The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary."
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"The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty."
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"The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such."
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"In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention."
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"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."
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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
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"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."
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"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
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