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It comes down to this: happiness is within our grasp, but it’s not free. It doesn’t just happen. It takes a reorientation of our own mental habits to both realize it and maintain it. Most of all, the achievement of happiness requires a commitment to bend the arc of our lives in the direction of things that count in life rather than toward the trinkets that decorate it.

Courage is born the moment we decide not to complain but instead to make a personal protest against the evils of the world by doing good, however slight.

Action really receives its character from prayer. Prayer is what attests the finitude of action and frees it from its dramatic or tragic aspect. Since it shows that the action is not final, it brings to it humor and reserve. Otherwise we would be tempted to take it with dreadful seriousness…
Prayer, because it is the warrant, the expression of my finitude, always teaches me that I must be more than my action, that I must live with my action and even that my action must be lived with by another in his action. Thanks to prayer, I can see that truth about myself and my action, in hope and not in despair

The Universalist doctrine is not a mere speculation, but a new principle of action in the heart

Love isn’t an emotion or even an intention, but a policy, a vow, a behavior. It must be embodied to become real. Love exists only in action.

Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.