The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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