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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True 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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

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