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

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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
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
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
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying

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

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