Simone Weil Quotes

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.