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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

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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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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