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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Simone Weil

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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand

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