Simone Weil Quotes

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

I consider myself a believer in something much bigger than myself, thank God.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real.

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.