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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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 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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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