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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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 beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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