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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
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
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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 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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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