The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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