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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom

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