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“Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo en exceso lo que no tengo.”
“Dios ama la comunión mucho más que la producción.”
“—Arrodillados ante Él adquirimos equilibrio. Cuando seas tentado a pensar que careces de valor, mira a la cruz.”
“ninguna decisión tomada en medio de la noche suele ser acertada.”
“Recuerda, entonces, que el éxito tiene un alto componente etílico. Vigila que no te emborrache.”
“La oscuridad propia de la vigilia nos deja sin referencias para elegir el camino adecuado. Detente, descansa, confía y espera a que amanezca.”
“Trabajar como si todo dependiera de mí y orar como si todo dependiera de Dios.”
“—Esos aficionados de la oración que se vuelven altaneros apenas se asoman al universo de la comunión con Dios y ya se sienten superiores al resto de los mortales. El orgullo es un fijador de pelo que atraviesa el cráneo y endurece y bloquea las neuronas.”
“«No seas un siervo de agenda abierta y Biblia cerrada.
No permitas nunca que tu Biblia sea asfixiada por tu agenda».”
“porque el tiempo y lo acontecido me han hecho comprender que en cada desierto hay una cruz restauradora, solo es cuestión de buscarla y guarecernos a su sombra. A”
“Sobre el escenario se lucen las estrellas; sobre el altar desciende la presencia de Dios. Ambas cosas son incompatibles; tendremos que elegir: Estrellas humanas o impacto divino. Mi”
“—Es una terrible incoherencia escuchar el sencillo mensaje del evangelio proclamado por labios altaneros. L”
“La humildad no es una opción sino un requisito innegociable para quien sirve a Dios y en esto también nos ayuda la oración. Volvi”
“Kissing you, wanting you, just being here with you while I’m legally bound to another woman…that’s not what I should be doing. I won’t want to belong to her in any way when my heart is yours.”
“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.”
“Life viewed from nine different camera angles; life played at nine tempos. Mixed, montaged; multiple. In the course of one lifetime. Maybe that's what reincarnation was all about. Reinvention.”
“Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.”
“She’d buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn’t reach her.”
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