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  • The world is God's language to us.

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    Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

  • We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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    "Attention and Will (1947)". "Gravity and Grace". Book by Simone Weil, p. 216, 1947.

  • Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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    Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

  • We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

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    Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.73, Routledge

  • In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

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  • 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.

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

  • We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

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    Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.267, Routledge

  • If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

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Simone Weil

  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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