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"Some of these men the devil will deceive. He sends a sort of dew - they think it is angels' food - coming out of the air as it were, and falling gently into their mouths ! They get the habit therefore of sitting gaping, as though they were catching flies! All this is really only pious fraud, for their souls are empty of real devotion. In their hearts is vanity and error, caused by their fantastic practices."

"No one should be judged by another here in this life, for the good and evil they has done. However, deeds may properly be judged whether they are good or bad, but not people."

"You should always be at this work, in intention if not in reality."

"This readiness is nothing else than a strong, deep sorrow of spirit. Everyone has something to sorrow over, but none more than they who know and feel that they [exist]."

"For whoever truly saw themselves as they truly are, would be humble."

"Did she descend to the deeps of her sinful life to search in the filth, brooding over each in turn? Of course not! Because God let her know that she could never bring it about this way. It was more likely that she would begin to sin again if she had done this."

"You are very busy and troubled about many things. But one thing is necessairy."

"So pay great attention to this marvellous work of grace. It is always a sudden impulse springing up to God like some spark from the fire. An incredible number of such impulses arise in one brief hour in the soul! In one such flash the soul may completely forget the created world outside. Yet almost as quickly it may relapse back to thoughts and memories of things done and undone - all because of our fallen nature. "

"All rational beings, angels and men, possess two faculties, the power of knowing and the power of loving. To the first, to the intellect, God who made them is forever unknowable, but to the second, to love, he is completely knowable, and that by every separate individual. This is the everlasting miracle of love. Consider this. To know it for oneself is endless bliss; its contrary is endless pain."

"If you want this intention summed up in a word, take a short word, preferably of one syllable. And fix this word fast to your heart. With this word you will hammer the cloud and the darkness above you. With this word you will suppress all thought under the cloud of forgetting. So much so that if ever you are tempted to think what it is that you are seeking, this one word will be sufficient answer."

"He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand. I looked thereupon and thought: What may this be? And it was answered thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God."

"A case of contradictories, both of them true. Where is the problem? I am quite sure that there is a God in the sense that I am sure my love is no illusion. I am quite. sure there is no God, in the sense that I am sure there is nothing which resembles what I can conceive when I say that word .... "

"On the cross we are forced to "recognize as real what we would not even have believed possible," "

"To the unbeliever who has rather smugly despised the churchgoer for seeking an easy consolation, she reveals the secret of his own cowardice, suggesting that his agnosticism may itself be only an opiate, a dodge to avoid facing the terror of God's reality..."

"Оджиън бе спасил града от земетресение, което щеше да срине със земята богатските кули и да затвори с лавина пролива между Дългоръките чукари. Той беше разговарял с планината Гонт, за да я усмири и бе успокоил тресещите се пропасти на Оувърфел, както се успокоява изплашено животно. Почти със страх той вдигна поглед към човека, който бе предотвратил едно земетресение, но лицето на Оджиън както винаги мълчеше."

"This is what Aureliano's smile seems to say: that truth is scarce and bleak and not enough, but that knowledge of helplessness is still a form of knowledge."

"Andeé lächelte mir zu, es war ein kurzes, aber so strahlendes Lächeln, dass sie auf mich wirkte wie das blühende Leben."

"Glauben Sie, dass Tiere eine Seele haben? Wenn sie keine haben, ist das zu ungerecht! Sie sind genauso uglücklich wie die Menschen. Und sie verstehen nicht, warum. Es ist noch schlimmer, wenn man es nicht versteht."