Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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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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