 Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. Topics: Love, Rewards |
| The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Topics: Love |
| We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another. Topics: Love |
| The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. Topics: Mercy |
| There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world. Topics: Mercy |
| We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. Topics: Peace |
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| As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows Himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him. Topics: Peace, Rest |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Topics: Pride, Humility |
| We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Topics: Rebellion |
| By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Topics: Scripture, Nature, Renewal |
| The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Topics: Suffering |
