Simone Weil Quotes

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

Those who forever seek the will of God are overrun by those who do it.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I've said all along that God is in control.

Act, and God will act.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.

God is in control of everything.

The future belongs to God.

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.

He who would pray, must obey.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.