Simone Weil Quotes

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

I believe in God. Spirit, I'm big time on that.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

I love the Bible.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

When I was young, I was religious.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.