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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence

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