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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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