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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
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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Choices Direction God World Worship
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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