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“There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fiber of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will...Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives, at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination and disobedience its charm. For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The men where you live, said the little prince, raise five thousand roses in the same garden- and they do not find in it what they are looking for... And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water...But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals; the terror of God, which is the secret of religion- these are the two things that govern us.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You might go so far as to say that when our hearts remain constantly in the act of thanksgiving, evil has no more hold on them. For in a grateful heart there is no longer any room for rancor, blame, unpleasantness, jealousy, all the rest. Our hearts, remaining pure, are able to perceive God's action.”
― The Way of Trust and Love - A Retreat Guided By St. Therese of Lisieux
― The Way of Trust and Love - A Retreat Guided By St. Therese of Lisieux
“We pray, suffer and labor in ignorance of the consequence of our acts and prayers. God makes them serve His supreme plan; gradually they take their effect, winning on soul, then another.
A bad spell for more than a month: bodily fatigue, domestic troubles, and, worse than that, a kind of sadness and moral apathy, a lack of the fervor and inner joy that God has sometimes given me so abundantly. And yet not for one moment has my will ceased to belong to Him; duty has cost me dearly, but it has not ceased to be duty.
To live is to fight, to suffer, and to love.”
― DIARIO Y PENSAMIENTO DE CADA DIA
A bad spell for more than a month: bodily fatigue, domestic troubles, and, worse than that, a kind of sadness and moral apathy, a lack of the fervor and inner joy that God has sometimes given me so abundantly. And yet not for one moment has my will ceased to belong to Him; duty has cost me dearly, but it has not ceased to be duty.
To live is to fight, to suffer, and to love.”
― DIARIO Y PENSAMIENTO DE CADA DIA
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