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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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

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