The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is 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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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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