What more can be said?
“This, then, is how you should pray..." Matthew 6.9 In the summer of 1941 Simone Weil went to stay with a friend. They agreed that they...
Religion: true or false?
"I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me..." Amos 5.21 Simone Weil's third example of the implicit love of...
All you need to know
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from...
How to love God - 1
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6.5 In a long treatise, Simone...
Hammering it home
... he mocks the despair of the innocent... Job 9.23 Before she left France, Simone Weil wrote a letter in which she distinguished...
A pearl of great price
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Proverbs 4.7 Reflecting on her schooldays,...
Your church is too small
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2.14 What did Simone Weil...
Beyond the pale
"... those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces." Matthew 11.8 The Pale was a strip of land along the east coast of Ireland around...
True friendship
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18.24 On the back of...
Go or stay?
I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far... Philippians 1,23 Further illustrating the...