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It is no small consolation in this life to have someone to whom you can be united in the intimate embrace of the most sacred love; in whom your spirit can rest; to whom you can pour out your soul; in whose delightful company, as in a sweet consoling song, you can take comfort in the midst of sadness; in whose most welcome, friendly bosom you can find peace in so many worldly setbacks; to whose loving heart you can open, as freely as you would to yourself, your innermost thoughts.
— Saint Aelred of Rievaulx 1110-1167)
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There are people who pray for eternal life and don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday.
— GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
–Anne Lamott (1954-
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
–HL Mencken (1880-1956)
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1890-1944)
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
