It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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