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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

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