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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way...more

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might again...more

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If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur...more

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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic...more

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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and ...more

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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

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Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased f...more

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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the w...more

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But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and...more

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From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.