Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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