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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

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

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

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