I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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