For 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 WEILPrayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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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.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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