Simone Weil Quotes

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me