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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Simone Weil

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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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

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