All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILThe love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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