Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILGrace 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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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