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I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

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I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
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Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes in suns, crosses the firmament and compromises the universe. If he begets an impure act, he perhaps darkens thousands of hearts whom he does not know, who are mysteriously linked to him, and who need this man to be pure as a traveller dying of thirst needs the Gospel’s draught of water. A charitable act, an impulse of real pity sings for him the divine praises, from the time of Adam to the end of the ages; it cures the sick, consoles those in despair, calms storms, ransoms prisoners, converts the infidel and protects mankind
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The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
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Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
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There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.
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The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.
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