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Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

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I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There are no questions of conscie...more

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Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature...more

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Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience ov...more

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If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

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I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosa...more