We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILContradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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