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.
SIMONE WEILGrace 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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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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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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: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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