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Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does.

...young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity

Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?

How laughter was considered as heretic

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do (p.97)

if memory is a gift of God, then the ability to forget can also be good, and must be respected...

...sometimes orders given to the simple-minded have to be reinforced with a threat, a suggestion that something terrible will happen to the disobedient, perforce something supernatural.