black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone 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 WEIL

Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
SIMONE WEIL

Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
SIMONE WEIL

Goodness Heart Human Object World
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEIL

Choice Light Oneself Plant
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEIL

Beautiful Forever Nature
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 WEIL

Choices Direction God World Worship
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
SIMONE WEIL

Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEIL

Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL

Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL

Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
SIMONE WEIL

Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL

Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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 WEIL

Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes