Michel Quoist Quotes

#1. Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Michel Quoist

#2. The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Michel Quoist

#3. Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Michel Quoist

#4. We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.

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#5. All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.

Michel Quoist

#6. We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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#7. If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.

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#8. The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Michel Quoist