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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
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

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

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