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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves

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