Joy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILIt is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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God 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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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