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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.

Simone Weil

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness 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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
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
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
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
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

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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