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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
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

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