We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

Simone Weil
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Though this quote is attributed to Albert Einstein, there is no evidence that he ever wrote it. The idea was borrowed from the works of the philosopher Kierkegaard, whose work takes the form of letters to his friend Abraham Kierkegaard. For Kierkegaard, God was like an imaginary friend for whom the believer must go on living even when he or she has no evidence for his existence.

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