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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

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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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

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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