Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILModern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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