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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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 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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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 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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World

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