Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEILLove 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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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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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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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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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