I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILThe 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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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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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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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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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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