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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

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