Simone Weil Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

  Simone Weil

  Fall, Thinking, Doe

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Intimate Conversation, Names, Two

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

• The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Father, Humanity

  "The Simone Weil Reader".

• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

• The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

  Simone Weil

  Environmental, World, Matter

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.60, Routledge

• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Crucifixion Of Christ, Envy

  Waiting on God Letter 4 (1950)

• It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

  Simone Weil

  Imagine, Christ, Easier

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.89, Psychology Press

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