A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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