In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since… — 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
If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which… — 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
The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something… — 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
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image… — 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 Image
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 Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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
