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Full Idea
The proper function of religion is to suffuse with its light all secular life, public or private, without in any way dominating it.
Gist of Idea
Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Nation')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.118
A Reaction
Even for the non-religious there is something attractive about some view of the world which 'suffuses our lives with light'. It probably describes medieval Christendom, but that contained an awful lot of darkness.