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

Simone Weil

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
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

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