"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away."

God, Love, Strength, Proof

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"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away."

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"To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain."

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"The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue."

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"The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war."

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"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."

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"Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself."

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"Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life."

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