Simone Weil Quotes About Acceptance

Quotes about: Acceptance

• Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

• ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

  Simone Weil

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.79, Routledge

• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

• All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Acceptance, Order

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