Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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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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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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