The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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