To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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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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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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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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