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First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.

— Josemaría Escrivá The Way (1950)

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I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth.

The Forge (1987)

People who are stupid, unscrupulous, or hypocritical, think that others are just the same. And — this is the real pity — they treat them as if they were.

The Furrow (1986)

The understanding that so many people demand of others is that everyone should join their party.

The Furrow (1986)

For everyone, whatever his state — single, married, widowed or priest — chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

The Furrow (1986)

The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.

The Furrow (1986)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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