Simone Weil Quotes

All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.