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Atheism is not only complicated and rare, it is also a recent phenomenon, a peculiarity supported by few and only recently in certain Western intellectual circles.

— Jean Guitton

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As quoted in Vittorio Messori, Inchiesta sul Cristianesimo

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Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish.

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In the spiritual life, to grow means to simplify and simplify oneself, to become closer to uncreated and ineffable simplicity.

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