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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Simone Weil

Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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