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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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