Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
Simone WeilIt is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
Simone WeilGod's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
Simone WeilIt is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
Simone Weil