Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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