Joy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILExpectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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