Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEILA 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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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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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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