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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin

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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