Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEILIt is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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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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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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