The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
SIMONE WEILThe 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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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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