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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Simone WeilSimone Weil We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone WeilSimone Weil A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone WeilSimone Weil It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone WeilSimone Weil War is the supreme form of prestige.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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 WeilSimone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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