August 2009
15 posts
“What, what will give me back my faith?…How can it be proved, how can one...”
– Brothers Karamazov, (A conversation between a lady of little faith and Father Zosima)
“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are...”
– Psalm 39:4
“Intelligence can never penetrate the mystery, but it, and it alone, can judge...”
– Simone Weil, G & G
“The object of our search should not tbe the supernatural, but the world. The...”
– Simone Weil, G & G
“All that I conceive of as true is less true than those things of which I cannot...”
– Simone Weil, G & G
“Work makes us experience in the most exhausting manner the phenomenon of...”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
To desire one's salvation is wrong...
…because it is an orientation of the soul towards a merely particular and contingent possibility instead of towards a completeness of being, instead of towards the good which exists unconditionally.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
“The church is a whore, but she is my mother.”
– St. Augustine
“The cracks let the light come in.”
– St. John of the Cross
“Only the educated are free.”
– Epictetus
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
– Chaucer
“Thank you, Jesus, for the mystery of your broken heart.”
– Henri Nouwen
“I wish and implore that my imperfection may be wholly revealed to me in so far...”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
“God and the supernatural are hidden and formless in the universe. It is well...”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
“As for inner feelings, nothing is more deceptive.”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace 