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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering

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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