Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEILPrayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEILFor when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
SIMONE WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILModern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEILThe sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
SIMONE WEILReligion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILWhat 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.
SIMONE WEILOne 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 WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILTo die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILWe must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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