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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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