The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Simone WeilGrace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone WeilIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Simone Weil