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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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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
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
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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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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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