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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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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God Love Ourselves Reason
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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

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