• 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.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher 1909-1943
  

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1. wretchedness
2. contemplate
3. alone
4. image

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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. by : Simone Weil

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