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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
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
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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

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