We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILPatriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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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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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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