A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone WeilIntellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Simone WeilGod is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone WeilEvil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Simone Weil