We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILSin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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 is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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