One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other po…

Simone Weil
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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