Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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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 religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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