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God Quotes by Simone Weil
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
- 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…
- There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
- The world is God's language to us.
- One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
- It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."…
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of…
- Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda