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Love is not consolation, it is light.

Simone Weil

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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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’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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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

Love is not consolation, it is light.

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