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“It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: being, things, and events are times.”
― Dōgen

“When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quality God’s image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“It is hard to accept this effacement of things and to maintain a conversation with what seems to be nothingness. It is hard to remain awake in the midst of empty darkness, where not only all familiar beings have lost their color, their voice and even their identity, but where the Divine Presence itself seems to have disappeared. Francis had desired poverty. He had espoused it, as he used to say. And here, at this moment of his existence, he was poor─painfully poor─beyond all that he had ever dreamed.”
― Eloi Leclerc, Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi, The