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

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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

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