Simone Weil Quotes

You become like what you worship

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

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.

Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

You don't have a god in you, you are one.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.