Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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 world is God’s language to us.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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