Simone Weil Quotes

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

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.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

There is no man who does not sin.

No man lives without fault.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

We are all sinners.

We are all people who have messed up. I fall short every single day.

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program… I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.

He who complains, sins.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

We men are wretched things.

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Adultery is an image of hell.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.