Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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