I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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 being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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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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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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