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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil

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
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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 Love Ourselves Reason
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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

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