Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEIL
SIMONE WEIL
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Simone WeilSimone Weil Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Simone WeilSimone Weil To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
Simone WeilSimone Weil It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
Simone WeilSimone Weil There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
Simone WeilSimone Weil To 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 WeilSimone Weil Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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 WeilSimone Weil There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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