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

Simone Weil

War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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