When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
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He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
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