Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILEquality 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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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