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.
SIMONE WEILDifficult 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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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