Simone Weil Quotes about Atheist

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

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

Simone Weil

Love, Atheist, Atheism

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

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

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Simone Weil

Atheist, Objectivity, Majority

Simone Weil (1970). “First and last notebooks”

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Simone Weil

Atheist, Acceptance, Order