<p><strong>'Time and again she pierces the veil of complacency and brings the reader face to face with the deepest levels of existence.'</strong> - <em>Church Times</em><br /><br /><strong>'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.'</strong> - <em>Gustave Thibon</em><br /><br /><strong>'One of the most profound religious thinkers of modern times.'</strong> - <em>The Twentieth Century, 1961</em><br /><br /><strong>'We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints.'</strong> - <em>T. S. Eliot</em><br /><br /><strong>'The light Simone shines makes everything seem, at once, reasurringly recognizable and so luminous as to be heavenly.'</strong> - <em>Malcom Muggeridge</em><br /><br /><strong>'In France she is ranked with Pascal by some, condemned as a dangerous heretic by others, and recognized as a genius by all.'</strong> - <em>New York Times Book Review</em><br /><br /><strong>'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".'</strong> - <em>André Gide</em></p>