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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money

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