Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEILThe 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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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