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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Simone Weil

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

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