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Simone Weil

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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
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
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
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
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
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
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

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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