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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil

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
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
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
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
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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

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