Simone Weil Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

  Simone Weil

  Emptiness, Sin

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

• The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Independence, Sin

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.115, Routledge

• All sins are attempts to fill voids.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Memorable, Void

  La Pesanteur et la Grace "Desirer sans Objet" (1948)

• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Suffering, Together

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

• Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

  Simone Weil

  Distance, Sin, Wrong Direction

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.41, 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)

• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

  Simone Weil

  Sin, Humans, Wretchedness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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