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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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