Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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