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The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to read more
The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.
Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on read more
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is read more
He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is leading him through the jubilation of Gennesaret or the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, read more
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of read more
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.