It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEILIt is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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