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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

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