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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

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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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace

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