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

Simone Weil · Faith

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Power

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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.

Loneliness

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Truth

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

God