“Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.”
― Humility: Wellspring of Virtue
― Humility: Wellspring of Virtue
“Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.”
― Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family
― Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family
“Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.”
― The Art of Living
― The Art of Living
“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“the one who desecrates the mystery of sex by seeing in it a harmless satisfaction of a bodily instinct, who approaches the world having extinguished the light of morality, moves in a dull, falsified world without depth, without thrill, without grandeur. His world is the magnified office of a psychoanalyst. He is not tragic; rather, he is immersed in hopeless boredom because it is the moral light, the great tension of good and evil, which elevates and widens human life beyond the frontiers of our earthly existence. As Kierkegaard said, “The ethical is the very breath of the eternal.”
― Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family
― Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family
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