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

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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

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

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