Order Quotes

You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.

The feeling (“sens”, Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused ? arose ?… sorry, – “suscité”, Fr.) by those who are opposed to it.

My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?

My main concern is with the world order.

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.

If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?