Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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