If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
SIMONE WEILA 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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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