It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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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