It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
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.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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