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

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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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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

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