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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Simone Weil

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
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
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
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering

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