Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEILIt 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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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