Consolation Quote by Simone Weil Download Open image “Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.” — Simone Weil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consolation Faith Inspirational Obstacles Religion Source True faith
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through! — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
Faith is the art of holding on to things despite your changing moods and circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide the enlightenment… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the… — Bono Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
