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“Christian Europe should be
by nature one; but it has
forgotten its nature in
forgetting its religion.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
― Hilaire Belloc

“Human society cannot carry on without some creed, because a code and a character are the
product of a creed.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“We are what we are today mainly because no one of those heresies finally overset our ancestral religion, but we are also what we are because each of them profoundly affected our fathers for generations, each heresy left behind its traces, and one of them, the great Mohammedan movement, remains to this day in dogmatic force and preponderant over a great fraction of territory which was once wholly ours.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“The strongest person is the person who isn’t scared to be alone.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“What you know is not always important.”
― Walter Tevis , The Queen's Gambit

“Normally she fled from any human encounter,”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.”
― C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“God,’ said Pascal, ‘instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.”
― C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“We are led to expect that the Author will have something to say to each of us on the part that each of us has played. The playing it well is what matters infinitely.”
― C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“Mental prayer is the source of true happiness. Whoever practices it faithfully will not fail to “taste and see that the Lord is good”
― Jacques Philippe, Time for God

“The time spent in prayer should be adequate. Five minutes are not enough for God. Five minutes are what we give someone when we want to get rid of him or her. A quarter of an hour is the absolute minimum, and anyone who is able should not hesitate to spend an hour on prayer, or even more, every day.”
― Jacques Philippe, Time for God

“A person who does not pray habitually, no matter how believing or pious he may be, will not achieve full spiritual growth. Neither will he acquire peace of soul because he will always experience excessive scruples and never view things beyond their human or worldly significance. Thus, one will always suffer from vanity, selfishness, self-centeredness, ambition, meanness of heart, vileness of judgment, and a sickly willfulness and attachment to one’s opinions. A person who does not pray may acquire human wisdom and prudence, but not true spiritual freedom or that deep and radical purification of the heart. One will not be able to grasp the depths of divine mercy or know how to make it known to others. His judgment will always end up shortsighted, mistaken, and contemptible. One will never be able to tread God’s ways, which are far different from what many—even those who have committed themselves to a life in the spirit—conceive them to be.”
― Jacques Philippe, Time for God

“The most powerful form of prayer, and the one which can virtually gain all things and which is the worthiest work of all, is that which flows from a free mind. The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings

“We should be able to recognize true and perfect love by whether or not someone has great hope and confidence in God, for there is nothing that testifies more clearly to perfect love than trust.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
― Meister Eckhart