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.
SIMONE WEILPrayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Grace 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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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