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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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