Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILPain 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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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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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