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.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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 much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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