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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Simone Weil

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

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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