
The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God.
p. 90
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)
Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 90
The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God.
p. 90
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)
“God, as Descartes justly said, we know! but what is man?”
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: God, as Descartes justly said, we know! but what is man? The schools answered:— Man is a rational animal! So was apparently a dog, or a bee, or a beaver, none of which seemed to need churches. Modern science, with infinite effort, has discovered and announced that man is a bewildering complex of energies, which helps little to explain his relations with the ultimate Substance or Energy or Prime Motor whose existence both Science and Schoolmen admit; which Science studies in laboratories and Religion worships in churches. The Man whom God created to fill his Church, must be an energy independent of God; otherwise God filled his own Church with his own energy.
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Attention and Will (1947), p. 216
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
“It doesn't matter what we believe about God. It's what He knows about us.”
London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 316
The speaker is an eighty-year-old Mother Superior explaining why she allowed the burial in the convent cemetery of a foreign woman, a collaborator in a charitable enterprise, who was an unbeliever.
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24
Context: This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.