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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.

Simone Weil

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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

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