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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

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
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
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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

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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