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

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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
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
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

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