black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEIL

Escape Ourselves Possession
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
SIMONE WEIL

Exception Gift Loan Value
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Forever Nature
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEIL

Evil React Way
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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEIL

Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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 WEIL

Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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 WEIL

Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEIL

Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEIL

Believe History Murder Word
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEIL

Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
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
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL

God Language One Liner World

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes