“The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”
— Simone Weil
“The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.” — Simone Weil
You live your illusion, and thus feel your fear, all out of your decision to doubt God.
Neale Donald Walsch • The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Conversations with God Series)
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch
I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35, emphasis mine)