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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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

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