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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality

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