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.
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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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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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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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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