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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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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Exception Gift Loan Value
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
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
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 always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea

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