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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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 beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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