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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Simone Weil

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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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

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