Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILWhat a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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