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“Withdraw yourself from people and spend at least an quarter of an hour, or a half-hour, in some church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord, and you will learn from your own experience how many graces this will bring you.”

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“If a well-known and trustworthy person were to go to a public square and tell all the idlers loitering there that on a certain hill they would find a gold mine and could take all they wanted, do you think anyone would shrug his shoulders and say he did not care? They’d be dashing there as fast as they could! Well, now, doesn’t the tabernacle hold the most precious treasure ever to be found on earth or in heaven? Unfortunately, there are many who cannot see it because they are blind. Yet our faith unerringly tells us that endless riches are to be found there. People sweat and toil to make money, and yet, in the tabernacle dwells the Lord of the universe. He will grant you what you ask, if you really need it. Isn’t Our Lord Jesus Christ Lord and Master of all? Go to Him then. Ask and it shall be given you; knock and it shall be opened to you! Jesus longs to grant you favors, especially those you need for your soul.”

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Author:St. John Bosco
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“Make this experiment whether you believe in God or not. At your first opportunity, stop in a Catholic Church for a visit. You need not believe, as we Catholics do, that Our Lord is really and truly present in the tabernacle. But just sit there for an hour, and within that hour you will experience a surpassing peace the like of which you never before enjoyed in your life. You will ask yourself as a sensationalist once asked me when we made an all-night vigil of adoration in the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Paris: “What is it that is in that church?” Without voice or argument or thundering demands, you will have an awareness of something before which your spirit trembles — a sense of the Divine.”

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Book:The Cries of Jesus From the Cross: A Fulton Sheen Anthology
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“Do we Catholics adore bread when we pay adoration to the Blessed Sacrament? No; we do not adore bread, for no bread is there, but the most sacred Body and Blood of Christ, and wherever Christ is, adoration is due Him by man and angels. St. Augustine says: "No one partakes of the Body until he has first adored and we not only do not sin when we adore It, but would sin if we did not adore It." The Council of Trent excommunicates those who assert that it is not allowable to adore Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, in the Blessed Sacrament. How unjust are those unbelievers who sneer at this adoration, when it has never entered into the mind of any Catholic to adore the external appearance of this Sacrament, but the Savior hidden under the appearances; and how grievously do those indifferent Catholics sin who show Christ so little veneration in this Sacrament, and seldom adore Him if at all!”

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Book:The Church's Year
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“The sincere reaction to making meaningful art is often speechlessness. We make art about what we cannot understand through any other method. The finished product is like a pearl, complete and beautiful, but mute about itself. The writer has given us this piece of his interior and there is frequently no explanation, nothing to be said about it. Often, the writer himself has very little idea of what he has created.”

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Author:Lan Samantha Chang
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“Моим единственным братом по духу является Ньютон. Я была взволнована, когда в университете нам рассказали о том месте в Principia Mathematica, Книге первой, где он, наклонив ведро с водой и используя наклонную поверхность, доказывает, что внутри и вокруг вращающейся Земли, и вращающегося Солнца, и танцующих звезд, не позволяющих найти какую-нибудь постоянную точку отсчета, систему координат и точку опоры в жизни, есть Absolute Space — Абсолютное Пространство, то, что остается неподвижным, то, за что мы можем ухватиться. Я не совершенна. Мне больше нравится снег и лед, чем любовь. Мне легче интересоваться математикой, чем любить своих ближних. Но у меня есть надежная опора в этой жизни, нечто незыблемое. И можно называть это способностью ориентироваться, можно называть это женской интуицией, можно называть это как угодно. Я опираюсь на фундамент, ниже которого опуститься не могу. Очень может быть, что я не лучшим образом устроила свою жизнь. Но я всегда — хотя бы одним пальцем — чувствую Абсолютное Пространство. Поэтому существует предел тому, насколько мир может расшатываться, насколько все может идти вкривь и вкось, прежде чем я это обнаружу.”

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Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow
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