The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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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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