White… is not a mere absence of

“White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category: god
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with

“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

Author: Simone Weil
Category: god
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