“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”
― Becoming Human
― Becoming Human
“The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.”
― Lumen Fidei: Enciclica sulla Fede
― Lumen Fidei: Enciclica sulla Fede
“Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint”
― Prayer for Beginners
― Prayer for Beginners
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