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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves 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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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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