"The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them."

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“There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an "indifferent" soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it.”

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