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January 11, 2008

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Belief is so important! A hundred contradictions might be true. If antiquity

were the rule of belief, men of ancient time would then be without rule. If

general consent, if men had perished?

False humanity, pride.

Lift the curtain. You try in vain; if you must either believe, or deny, or

doubt. Shall we then have no rule? We judge that animals do well what they

do. Is there no rule whereby to judge men?

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a

horse.

Punishment of those who sin, error.

261. Those who do not love the truth take as a pretext that it is disputed,

and that a multitude deny it. And so their error arises only from this, that

they do not love either truth or charity. Thus they are without excuse.

262. Superstition and lust. Scruples, evil desires. Evil fear; fear, not

such as comes from a belief in God, but such as comes from a doubt whether

He exists or not. True fear comes from faith; false fear comes from doubt.

True fear is joined to hope, because it is born of faith, and because men

hope in the God in whom they believe. False fear is joined to despair,

because men fear the God in whom they have no belief. The former fear to

lose Him; the latter fear to find Him.

263. "A miracle," says one, "would strengthen my faith." He says so when he

does not see one. Reasons, seen from afar, appear to limit our view; but

when they are reached, we begin to see b

January 11, 2008

Re: service pack 3

From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>

| say, this was far from what

| has been usual in years past; for he observed that in his time, many

| more women were converted than men. Those of our young people who are on

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