Simone Weil Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Religious, Adversity

• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Insomnia, Doors

• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Equality, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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

• Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Light, Years

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

• Grace 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 Weil

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Space

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

• It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

  Simone Weil

  Grace, Void, Form

• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace 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. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

  Simone Weil

  Filling Up, Law, Space

• Conformity is an imitation of grace.

  Simone Weil

  Grace, Conformity, Imitation

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.167, Psychology Press

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