It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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