Quotes from book

Waiting for God

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

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

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“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
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“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

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“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

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“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

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“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

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