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Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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 always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
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
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth

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