Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists, and these in their turn often enough do not believe in Him either. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-Idea, not in God Himself.[Los que dicen creer en Dios, y ni le aman ni le temen, no creen en El, sino en aquellos que les han enseñado que Dios existe, los cuales, a su vez con harta frecuencia, tampoco creen en El. Los que sin pasión de ánimo, sin congoja, sin incertidumbre, sin duda, sin la desesperación en el consuelo, creen creer en Dios, no creen sino en la idea Dios, mas no en Dios mismo.]

Source:(ed. 1921), Chaptep IX. Faith, Hope, and Charity, page 193
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