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37 quotes
priest and author (1915–1968)
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.”
"But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question."
on Mindfulness
"The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods."
on Ethics
"Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am."
on Ambition
"The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily."
on Faith
"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another."
on Love
"If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."
on Life
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
on Art
"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
"When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well."
"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."
"The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it."
on Spirituality
"The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them."
"Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis."
on Philosophy
"All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…"
"How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books."
on Wisdom
"The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept."
on Communication
"Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more."
"We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us."
