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" finally I say all right, it is improbable, all right, there is no God. And then as if I’m focusing a magnifying glass on dry leaves, God blazes up. It’s the attention, maybe, to what isn’t there that makes the notion flare like a forest fire until I have to spend the afternoon dragging the hose to put it out. . . . "
― Lauren F. Winner , Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God