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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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

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