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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
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 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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name 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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer

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