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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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

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