Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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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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