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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner 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
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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 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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle

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