Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEILThe sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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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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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 be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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