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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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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom

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