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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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

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

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