How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
Simone WeilHuman beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone WeilWe have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.
Simone WeilTag: god
Chaque être crie en silence pour être lu autrement.
Simone WeilThe form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives. Some circumstances prevent the very birth of this love; others kill it before it has been able to grow very strong. In affliction some men, in spite of themselves, develop a hatred and contempt for religions because the cruelty, pride, or corruption of certain of its ministers have made them suffer. There are others who have been reared from their earliest youth in surroundings impregnated with a spirit of this sort. We must conclude that in such cases, by God's mercy, the love of our neighbor and the love of the beauty of the world, if they are sufficiently strong and pure, will be enough to raise the soul to any height.
Simone WeilThe joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.
Simone WeilSin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone WeilWe cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
Simone WeilTo 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 WeilThere are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
Simone WeilTag: belief god atheism concepts
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