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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Everyone's greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
The question about the value of life, about the meaning of life, forms part of the singular treasure of youth. Still more so, when youth is tested by personal suffering, or is profoundly aware of the suffering of others; when it comes face to face with the mystery of sin, of human iniquity (mysterium iniquitatis). Christ's reply is this: 'Only God is good; only God is love. '
If the wormcam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with him in the building of the civilization of love.