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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
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

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