We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILOne 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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched 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 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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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