"If we would despise the enemy, our thoughts must always be of God and our souls always glad with hope."

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“To one whose mind is sound, letters are needless.”

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“Hate the world and all that is in it. Hate all peace that comes from the flesh. Renounce this life, so that you may be alive to God.”

“To those who have an active belief, reasoned proofs are needless and probably useless.”

“Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.”

“Just as fish die if they stay too long out of water, so the monks who loiter outside their cells or pass their time with men of the world lose the intensity of inner peace. So like a fish going towards the sea, we must hurry to reach our cell, for fear that if we delay outside, we will lose our interior watchfulness.”

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"We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God."

— Georges Bataille

Literature1897–1962

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— Robert Maynard Hutchins

Politics1929–1945

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"The language of priorities is the religion of socialism."

— Aneurin Bevan

Politics1897–1960

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— Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Religion1929

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