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.
SIMONE WEILThe 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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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 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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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