Simone Weil Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

  Simone Weil

  Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

  Simone Weil

  Church, Degenerates, Belief

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.284, Routledge

• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

• In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

  Simone Weil

  Belief, Divine, Certainty

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.80, Routledge

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