Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILThe 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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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