The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
SIMONE WEILGod is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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It 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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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 of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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