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Love is not consolation, it is light.

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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love

Love is not consolation, it is light.

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