God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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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.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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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.
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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.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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