Simone Weil Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Atheist, Atheism

• One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Knowing, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Two, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.114, Psychology Press

• Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.

  Simone Weil

  Faith, Atheist, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.238, Routledge

• Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

  Simone Weil

  Israel, Rome, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.30, Psychology Press

• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Believe, Order

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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