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“The possibility of this sickness [despair] is the human being’s advantage over the animal; to be aware of this sickness is the Christian’s advantage over the natural human being; to be cured of this sickness is the Christian’s blessedness.”

“For, humanly speaking, death is the last of things, and humanly speaking, there is only hope as long as there is life. But as Christianity views it, death is by no means the last of all things, is indeed only a minor event within that which is all, an eternal life…”

“A person always acquires courage in this way: when one fears a greater danger, a person always has the courage to confront a lesser one…”