A short time ago I was told by a very learned man that souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them. In the same way, there are souls so infirm and so
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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
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“Of course, we do not have to make a Holy Hour – and that is just the point. Love is never compelled, except in hell. There love has to submit to justice. To be forced to love would be a kind of hell.”
― THE HOLY HOUR PRAYER BOOK : Could You Not Watch One Hour With Me?
― THE HOLY HOUR PRAYER BOOK : Could You Not Watch One Hour With Me?
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