SIMONE WEIL
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| If we really love God, we necessarily
think of Him as being, amongst other things, the soul of the world; for love is always
connected with a body, and God has no other body which is offered to our senses except the
universe itself. Then each occurrence,
whatever it may be, is like a touch on the part of God; each even, each thing that takes
place, whether it be fortunate, unfortunate or unimportant from our particular point of
view, is a caress of God’s. We should give God the strict minimum of place in
our lives, that which it is absolutely impossible for us to refuse Him-and earnestly
desire that one day, and as soon as possible, that strict minimum may become all. |
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WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG
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| "The good is what God
orders." (Brand, 1979, 164) "The meaning of life,
(I.e., the meaning of the world), we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of
God to a father. To pray is to think about the meaning of life...To believe in a God means
to see the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to
see that life has a meaning." |
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