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23rd July 2010
Some of my favourite quotes
I've gathered
through the years - Part II
"God is my centre when I close God in,
and my circumference when I melt in
God."
(Angelus Silesius 17th
Century)
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be truly yours.
Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the
dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only
hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for
Christ, and you will find him, and with him, everything else
thrown in."
(C.S. Lewis)
"Never fail, whatever may befall
you,
be it good or
evil,
to keep your heart quiet and
calm
in the tenderness of
love."
(St John of the Cross
1542-1591)
“O Divine Master, grant that I may seek not so much to be
consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to
understand, not so much to be loved, as to love; for it is in
giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we awake to eternal life."
(St Francis of Assisi
1181-1226)
"Give me, good Lord, a longing to be
with you,
not to avoid the calamities of this
world,
nor so much to attain the joys of
heaven,
as simply for love of
you."
(St Thomas More 1478-1535)
"Let nothing disturb you; let nothing
dismay you;
all things pass. God never
changes.
Patience attains all it
strives for.
He who has God finds he lacks
nothing:
God alone
suffices."
(St Teresa of Avila
1515-1582)
"Let us work with one another and bear with one
another.
We all have faults. No one is perfect
amongst us,
but if we have only to account for
our own,
and in carefully attending to our own
imperfections
and failings,
we will not have time to note those of
others."
(Mary MacKillop 1842-1909)
"If experience of Ultimate Things helps to make life healthier,
more beautiful, more complete, and more satisfactory to yourself
and to those you love, you may safely say, 'This was the grace
of God'."
(Carl Jung 1875-1961)
"Even if we become more enlightened, we remain what we are; we
are never more than our own limited ego before the One who
dwells within us, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who
encompasses us on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the
earth and vast as the sky."
(Carl Jung 1875-1961)
"And now unto Him who is able to keep us from falling and lift
us from the dark valley of despair to the bright mountain of
hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy;
to him be power and authority, for ever and ever."
(Martin Luther King
1928-1968)
“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with
God. And those who see take off their shoes. The rest of us sit
around and pluck blackberries."
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861)
"I don't know who or what put the question. I don't know when it
was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I
did answer "yes" to Someone or Something, and from that hour I
was certain that existence is meaningful, and that therefore my
life in self-surrender had a goal."
(Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961)
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