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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

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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 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 sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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 world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

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

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