The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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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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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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