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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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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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity 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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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

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