Dietrich von Hildebrand quotes
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“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”
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“Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.”
-- Dietrich von HildebrandSource : Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby (2014). “My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich”, p.12, Image
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“The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.”
-- Dietrich von HildebrandSource : Dietrich Von Hildebrand (2001). “Transformation in Christ”, p.17, Ignatius Press
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“There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.”
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“Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.”
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“Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.”
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“The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.”
-- Dietrich von HildebrandSource : Dietrich Von Hildebrand (2001). “Transformation in Christ”, p.171, Ignatius Press
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“One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office”
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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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“The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.”
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“For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends”
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“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.”
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Source : Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor
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