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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? – Wynton Marsalis

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. – Sydney Carter

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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think whats new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. – Gordon Brown

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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