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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
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
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
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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