Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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.
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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.
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
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.
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Humility is attentive patience.
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