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

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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
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
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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