The Frenchwoman Simone Veil (1909-1943) writes: «The law of moral gravity makes us fall towards the sky.» She managed to tell about what morality and moral gravity is better than any other Christian thinker of the XNUMXth century. Maybe because she confirmed every word with her own experience.
The Frenchwoman Simone Veil (1909-1943) writes: «The law of moral gravity makes us fall towards the sky.» She managed to tell about what morality and moral gravity is better than any other Christian thinker of the 34th century. Maybe because she confirmed every word with her own experience. Simone died at the age of 1947 from exhaustion, because she considered it impossible for herself, living in London in exile (she, a Jew, left France to escape deportation), to eat better than prisoners in concentration camps. The book Gravity and Grace, published in XNUMX after her death, includes excerpts from her diaries and notebooks — reflections on love and evil, violence and unhappiness, reason and grace … Simone Weil came to faith through radical doubt and, translating the core of Christian problems into modern language, opened this way for millions of its readers. That is why Sergei Averintsev pointed to her as the spiritual support of the XNUMXst century. “If there is a XNUMXst century,” he wrote, “then this century will also be the century of Simone Weil.”
Russian way, 266 p.