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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.

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
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
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
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 sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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

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