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War is the supreme form of prestige.

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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
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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

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