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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

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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 only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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 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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle

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