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"...every contact with good leads to a knowledge of the distance between good and evil and the commencement of a painful effort of assimilation.... The corresponding sin cannot come about unless a lack of hope makes the consciousness of the distance intolerable, and changes pain into hatred. Hope is a remedy in this respect. But a better remedy is indifference to ourselves, being happy because the good is good..."
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"...at the contact of a perfectly pure being there is a transmutation, and the sin becomes suffering. Such is the function of the just servant of Isaiah, of the Lamb of God. Such is redemptive suffering. All the criminal violence of the Roman Empire ran up against Christ, and in him it became pure suffering. Evil beings, on the other hand, transform simple suffering (sickness, for example) into sin."
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"...although we are far from it and may even suppose that we are destined to remain separate from it forever."
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