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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
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
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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 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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

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