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

Simone Weil

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
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
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love

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

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