Logan Freeman > Logan's Quotes

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”
― Simone Weil

“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, Gravity and Grace

“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
― Simone Weil

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
― Simone Weil

“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”
― Simone Weil

“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
― Simone Weil

“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. ”
― Simone Weil

“True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.”
― Simone Weil

“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
― Simone Weil

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
― Simone Weil

“Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him.
Every being cries out silently to be read differently.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”
― Simone Weil

“Manna today or I starve.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world.”
― Ann Voscamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Don’t belittle everyday pots and pans — they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Something always comes to fill the empty places. And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are