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. - SearchQuotes

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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.

Simone Weil

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