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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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