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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace 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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power 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
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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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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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