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If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We...more

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If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even...more

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You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

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For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, w...more

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Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest...more

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You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. I...more