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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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 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

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