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According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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