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

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble

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

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