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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.

Simone Weil

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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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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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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