Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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