It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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