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The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.
Peace of Soul (1949)
Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
Peace of Soul (1949)
Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.
Peace of Soul (1949)
By denying any ultimate standard outside of self, one can escape all self-blame and go through life on a perpetual mission of face saving.
Peace of Soul (1949)
Each day he has a new idol, each week a new mood. His authority is public opinion: when that shifts, his frustrated soul shifts with it.
Peace of Soul (1949)
All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.
Peace of Soul (1949)
There is not a single striving or pursuit or yearning of the human heart, even in the midst of the most sensual pleasures, that is not a dim grasping after the Infinite.
Peace of Soul (1949)
In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him.
Peace of Soul (1949)
[H]e is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).
Peace of Soul (1949)
[N]o man hates God without first hating himself.
Peace of Soul (1949)
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.
Peace of Soul (1949)
We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.
Peace of Soul (1949)
Christian theology is, in a certain sense, a psychology, since its primary interest is the soul, the most precious of things. Our Lord balanced a universe against a soul and found the soul worth more than gaining a world.
Peace of Soul (1949)
By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians — whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.
Peace of Soul (1949)
We justify want of faith by saying, "I don't go to church, but I am better than those who do," as one might say, "I don't pay taxes or serve the nation, but I am better than those who do."
Peace of Soul (1949)
There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an "indifferent" soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it.
Peace of Soul (1949)
It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.
Peace of Soul (1949)