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.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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