Simone Weil on god
Simone Weil82 quotes“God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.”
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Joy is being fully aware of reality.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Simone WeilSimone Weil I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone WeilSimone Weil True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
Simone WeilSimone Weil All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone WeilSimone Weil A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Simone WeilSimone Weil There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Simone WeilSimone Weil At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
Francis ChanFrancis Chan War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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