The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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