Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILThe beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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