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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.

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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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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 extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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

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