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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Simone Weil

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 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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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

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