God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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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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