Simone Weil Quotes

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Our conduct will never change God's character.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.