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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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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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance

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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