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"This is really a devotional rather than a "book" to be read straight through." — Jun 01, 2026 08:54PM
"This is really a devotional rather than a "book" to be read straight through." — Jun 01, 2026 08:54PM
“You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.”
― The Essential Rumi
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.”
― The Essential Rumi
“…is there anyone so deaf that he cannot hear in Byzantine churches some echo of the Catacombs? What could be more natural than that just as martyrs made paintings for martyrs, latter-day bureaucrats paint for bureaucrats?”
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“You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.”
― The Essential Rumi
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.”
― The Essential Rumi
“The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.”
― The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition
― The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition
“So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.”
― The City of God: Books 1-10
― The City of God: Books 1-10
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