Waiting on God

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Mark Poole
on February 27, 2006 at 9:00 AM TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)

I just happened upon these wonderful quotes from the twentieth century Catholic mystic, Simone Weil:

"Yet I still half refused, not my love but my intelligence. For it seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms ...

But perhaps God likes to use castaway objects, waste, rejects. After all, should the bread of the host be moldy, it would become the Body of Christ just the same after the priest had consecrated it."

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God (1951)

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