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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.

Simone Weil

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object 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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