“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.”
― The Violence Of Love
― The Violence Of Love
“The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
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