"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."
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"Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyon…"
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