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

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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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
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
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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