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The world is God’s language to us.

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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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

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