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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. - Simone

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. – Simone Weil

Category:
communication
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Simone Weil
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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

Category:
alone
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Simone Weil
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

Category:
power
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Simone Weil
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power
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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power

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim

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power

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. – E. Stanley Jones

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power

Power ought to serve as a check to power. – Charles de Secondat

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power

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. – Aristotle

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