Simone Weil Quotes

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.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

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

I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

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.