Quotes About Spirituality

To love God all-powerless.

If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal.

Ori de câte ori m? gândesc la crucificarea lui Hristos, s?vâÅŸesc p?catul invidiei.

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

I still think today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. (from Waiting for God, 2009 edition page 27)

Dieu n'a pu créer qu'en se cachant. Autrement il n'y aurait que lui.

The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.

For the action of grace in our hearts is secret and silent.

Renoncer à tout ce qui n'est pas la grâce et ne pas désirer la grâce.

On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.

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

A man whose whole family died under torture, and who had himself been tortured for a long time in a concentration camp. Or a 16th century Indian, the sole survivor after the total extermination of his people. Such men if they had previously believed in God would either believe it no more, or else they would conceive of it quite differently than before.

Once we have understood we are nothing, the object of all our efforts is to become nothing. It is for this that we suffer with resignation, it is for this that we act, it is for this that we pray.

The death agony is the supreme dark night which is necessary even for the perfect if they are to attain to absolute purity, and for that reason it is better that it should be bitter.

We must not judge. We must be like the Father in heaven who does not judge: by him beings judge themselves.

God can only be present in creation under the form of absence.

Une oeuvre d'art a un auteur, et pourtant, quand elle est parfaite, elle a quelque chose d'essentiellement anonyme. Elle imite l'anonymat de l'art divin. Ainsi la beauté du monde prouve un Dieu à la fois personnel et impersonnel, et ni l'un ni l'autre.

But if the soul stops loving it falls, even in this life, into something which is almost equivalent to hell. — Simone Weil

Our Father only resides in secret. Love should not go without modesty. True faith implies great discretion even over against itself. It is a secret between God and us in which we ourselves have almost no part.

La science, aujourd'hui, cherchera une source d'inspiration au-dessus d'elle ou périra

we have to fix our will on the void—to will the void. For the good which we can neither picture nor define is a void for us. But this void is fuller than all fullnesses. If we get as far as this we shall come through all right, for God fills the void. It has nothing to do with an intellectual process in the present-day sense. The intelligence has nothing to discover, it has only to clear the ground. It is only good for servile tasks.

La foi, c'est l'expérience que l'intelligence est éclairée par l'amour

As for us, we are nailed in place, free only to direct our gaze, subject to necessity. A blind mechanism, which takes no account of the degree of spiritual perfection, continually tosses people and throws some of them at the foot of the Cross. It depends only on them to keep—or not—their eyes turned towards God through the shaking. It is not that the providence of God is absent. It is by His providence that God willed necessity as a blind mechanism.