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There is no true educator who is not a man of prayer through which he is clothed in the genuine spirit of Christ, the Teacher par excellence.

— Giuseppe Lazzati

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The essential problem is that of men and their qualities; not that of names and structures.

In that harsh trial [the concentration camp], Christian education showed its absolute superiority.

The provocations to the new press on with a peremptory force that, day after day, becomes more difficult and arduous to face by opposing a certain critical scrutiny.

It is possible to make young people capable of choosing, and to prepare them to be conquerors of freedom: educating for rupture then means only educating to make choices, not providing choices that have already been made.

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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.

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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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