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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Simone Weil

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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
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
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 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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand

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