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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
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

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

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