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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.

Simone Weil

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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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

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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