“C. S. Lewis captured this so beautifully in one of my favorite quotes of all time: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“En este libro he querido ilustrar cómo el silencio es uno de los principales medios que nos permiten entrar en el espíritu de la oración; el silencio nos dispone a establecer relaciones vitales y continuas con Dios. Es difícil encontrar una persona piadosa que hable mucho. Al revés: quienes poseen el espíritu de oración aman el silencio.”
― La fuerza del silencio
― La fuerza del silencio
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“Not a fig shall I care then for all the devils in hell: it is they who will fear me. I do not understand these fears. "Oh, the devil, the devil!" we say, when we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil tremble. Of course we might, for we know he cannot move a finger unless the Lord permits it. Whatever are we thinking of? I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”
― Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume I
― Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume I
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