“God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”
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“As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.”
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“I have worked with women religious for more than twenty-five years. Shortly after the publication of Leadership and the New Science, a colleague gave me great advice. He said that if I was interested in organizations that worked from a strong sense of values, then I should be working with the military and nuns.”
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“The benefit of obedience: the soul frees itself for things interior when it's exterior life is taken over by someone else, as in military service, the monastery, the family.”
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