black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Simone Weil

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEIL

Empty Fly Sin
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEIL

Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEIL

Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEIL

Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL

Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEIL

Myself One Liner Patriot
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEIL

Compassionate Humility True
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEIL

Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
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.
SIMONE WEIL

Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL

Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL

Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
War is the supreme form of prestige.
SIMONE WEIL

Form One Liner War
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
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

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes