Simone Weil Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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

• One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Courage, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

• We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

  Simone Weil

  Heaven, Steps, Crosses

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.45, Routledge

• The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

  Simone Weil

  Philosophical, Metaphor, Universe

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.98, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Country, Children

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

• 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 Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Tired

• Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Two, Gravity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.1, Psychology Press

• To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

  Simone Weil

  Weight, Bears, Innocent

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.91, Psychology Press

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