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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
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
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile 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

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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