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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

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value

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

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