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

Simone Weil

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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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

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

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