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.
SIMONE WEILA mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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