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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

— Franz Kafka

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

— Ezra Taft Benson

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

— Johnny Cash

There is a god within us.

— Ovid

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

— Pablo Casals

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

— Yo-Yo Ma

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Into each life some rain must fall.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

— William Law

We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.

— Pope Benedict XVI