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The Orthodox surpass us in Marian devotion.

— Vittorio Messori

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Mariology is closely linked to Christology: abandoning or even just downsizing the former means calling into question the latter as well. (p. 322)

The Christian God proposes and does not impose, always leaving a margin of darkness that allows denial and that saves man's freedom; and, for Him, the right to forgive. (p. 91)

Judaism – as has been said, albeit in a somewhat simplified way – is the religion of hope; the Christianity of charity; the islamism of faith. (p. 191)

Simone Weil, the Jew educated in agnosticism, also reacted in the name of reason to man's instinctive and recurrent protest for the lack of divine evidence. (chap. II)

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