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.
SIMONE WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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.
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