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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Simone Weil

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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
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
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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