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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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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up 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
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
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

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