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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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 a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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

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