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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Simone Weil

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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