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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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