When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.
Simone WeilReligion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
Simone WeilEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone WeilIf Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil