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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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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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion 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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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

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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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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