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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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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Choices Direction God World Worship
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree

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