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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People

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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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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