“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”

— Simone Weil , book Gravity and Grace

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Source: Gravity and Grace

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French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909–1943

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