There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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