“To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.”

—  Simone Weil

Last Notebook (1942) p. 137
First and Last Notebooks (1970)
Context: In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

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