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Simone Weil Quotes - Page 7

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Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Live In The Moment, Saint, Today

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.28, Routledge

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Appreciate, Flavor, Form

Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Prayer, Heart, Attentiveness

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Heaven, Steps, Crosses

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.45, Routledge

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Faith, Lying, Soul

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

Fall, Thinking, Doe

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

Renunciation is submission to time.

Submission, Renunciation

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.221, Routledge

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

Effort, Salvation, Easiness

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

Atheist, Believe, Order

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

Real, Imagination, Christian Love

Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Thinking, Self

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.4, Routledge

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Dream, Real, Joy

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

Race, Idols, People

Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.6, Routledge

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Real, Paradise, Hell

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Absence, Feels

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Christian, Civilization, Aggravation

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Teamwork, Taken, Sorrow

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.21, Routledge

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Light, Two, Gravity

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.1, Psychology Press

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

Order, Two, Humanity

Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Art, Work, Perfect

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.149, Psychology Press

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Suffering, Chance, Hunger

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.5, Routledge

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

Religious, Heart, Son

"Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Simple, Roots, Effort

Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.44, Routledge

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

God, Matter, Impossible

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Doctors, Saint, Needs

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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