Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILThe beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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