God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEILImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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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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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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