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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Simone Weil

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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place

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