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Our love for God can be like Cordelia's for Lear.

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I am a reactionary. My favorite time in history is Genesis 1:31.

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You know well that at the birth of our Lord, the shepherds heard the angelic and divine chants of the heavenly spirits. The scriptures say so. But they do not say that his Virgin Mother and St. Joseph, who were nearer to the Child, heard the voices of angels or saw those miracles of splendor. On the contrary, they heard the Child weeping and saw by the light of a poor lantern, the eyes of the Divine Child all bathed in tears, in sighs and shivering with cold. Now I ask you, would you not have preferred to have been in the dark stable, filled with the cries of the little Child, rather than to have been with the shepherds, beside yourself with joy over those sweet melodies from heaven and the beauties of this wonderful splendor?

— St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, quoted in Diane Allen, Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio, 2009, 293-294

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Jesus did not have to die for our sins, just as Adam did not have to sin. But both happened.

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It was common to say that many a man was a Great Might Have Been. To me it is a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might Not Have Been.
— G. K. Chesteron, Orthodoxy, 1909, 114, quoted in Stanley L. Jaki, Chesterton: A Seer of Science, 2001 (1986), 107–108.

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About all of us a decision has been made in heaven. It falls upon us poor earthlings to let God's will in heaven be also done on earth in our particular case. By comparison all other issues are irrelevant.

— Stanley L. Jaki, Ours a Dearest Father: Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer

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