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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Simone Weil

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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