Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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