It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Georges Bernanos
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  2. And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love....

  3. The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

  4. A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't afraid of sin. On the contrary, she can look it in the face calmly and even take it upon herself, assume it at times, as Our Lord did....

  5. O miracle–thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

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