Friday, April 3, 2015

This marvel of love is the crucifixion (Simone Weil)

God created through love and for love.  God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love.  He created love in all its forms.  He created beings capable of love from all possible distances.  Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance.  This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion.  Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

--Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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