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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936)
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
A Letter to St. Augustine after Re-Reading His Confessions (1950)
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