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

Simone Weil

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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
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
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual

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