"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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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.

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