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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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 a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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

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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