"The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world."
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"The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant."
"To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish."
"The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine."
"Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal."
"I remember things the way they should have been."
"The way to good conduct is never too late."
"There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts."
"We see what we believe, not the other way around."
"Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music"
"We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there."
"Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself."
"It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth."
"If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience."
"The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about."
"The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours."
"I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians."
"Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute."
"He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through"
"The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task."