Anthony de Mello Quotes
You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a 'thing'; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.
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There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.
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The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.
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I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a 'thing'; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
