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

Simone Weil

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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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