black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
SIMONE WEIL

Cry Different Reading Silence
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEIL

Existence Feeling Love
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEIL

Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
SIMONE WEIL

Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEIL

Evil React Way
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEIL

Escape Ourselves Possession
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL

God Language One Liner World
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
SIMONE WEIL

Choices Direction God World Worship
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
SIMONE WEIL

Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Goodness Heart Human Object World
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEIL

Human Important Need Recognition Soul

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes