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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
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
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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

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