A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
SIMONE WEILIt 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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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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