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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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 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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People

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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