I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Love on the part of someone who is happy is the wish to share the suffering of the beloved who is unhappy.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“God rewards the soul that focuses on Him with attention and love, and God rewards that soul by exercising a rigorous compulsion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Carnal love in all its forms, from the highest — true marriage or platonic love — to the most base, down to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil Copy Share
