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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Simone Weil

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

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