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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

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