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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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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