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He began to be frightened by the very fact that his fears seemed to have momentarily vanished. They had been a safeguard . . . they had prevented him, all his life, from making mad decisions like that which he was now making as he turned to
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“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“God does not call us to holiness so that He can test us by keeping us from a life of pleasure. Holiness is a call to experience forever the perfect pleasure of God’s presence.”[4]”
― Moths Flirting With Flames: Our Obsession With God's Presence
― Moths Flirting With Flames: Our Obsession With God's Presence
“No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“This was what the Culture offered, this was its signal, its advertisement, its legacy: chaos from order, destruction from construction, death from life.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your names.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
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