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.
SIMONE WEILWhen 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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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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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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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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