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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

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