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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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