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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner 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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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