Gravity and Grace, 1st Edition

‘Time and again she pierces the veil of complacency and brings the reader face to face with the deepest levels of existence.’ - Church Times

‘At the twilight of a century whose accelerated history has led to the rise and fall of so many idols, this book increasingly appears like a message from eternity.’ - Gustave Thibon

‘One of the most profound religious thinkers of modern times.’ - The Twentieth Century, 1961

‘We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints.’ - T. S. Eliot

‘The light Simone shines makes everything seem, at once, reasurringly recognizable and so luminous as to be heavenly.’ - Malcom Muggeridge

‘In France she is ranked with Pascal by some, condemned as a dangerous heretic by others, and recognized as a genius by all.’ - New York Times Book Review

‘The best spiritual writer of this century … she said it was her vocation to stand at the intersection of Christians and non-Christians. She thus becomes the patron saint of all “outsiders”.’ - André Gide

Simone Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

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