Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILIt 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 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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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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