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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

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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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue

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