We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILIf you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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