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Jesuit maxim "Work as if success depended on your own efforts-but trust as if all depended on God."' Loyola's successor, Diego Lafnez, echoed the sentiment in blunter terms: "While it is true that God could speak by the mouth of an ass,
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“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”
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“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be a n emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come...”
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“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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