Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILExpectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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It 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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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