We Are Desperate for God to be Real

Thoughts inspired by Simone Weil...

Aug 30, 2023

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“God is pure beauty.” and… “There is a silence in the beauty of the universe which is like noise when compared with the silence of God.” — Simone Weil, “Implicit Forms of the Love of God”

Beauty is God in motion.
Silence is God at rest.
Beauty is God making a pass at us.
Silence is God waiting to be seen.

Weil writes a little earlier in the same piece tha…

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