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.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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