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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Simone Weil

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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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

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