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Simone Weil

"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

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"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."

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