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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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

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