The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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