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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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