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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

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"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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