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

Simone Weil

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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
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
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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

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