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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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

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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