Despair makes us serve evil as much as good. - Hadewijch - Quotesmemo.com

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Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

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Hadewijch

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

Despair, Evil, Good, Serve

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even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

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Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

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Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

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Love has seven names,
Which, as you know, are appropriate to her;
Chain, light, live coal, and fire -
. . . dew, living spring, and hell.

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Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

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