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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

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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