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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
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
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
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 grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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