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

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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
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
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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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way

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