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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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