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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong

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