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

Simone Weil

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
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 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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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

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