"Facts do not find their way into the……" — Marcel Proust

"Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor."

— Marcel Proust

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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
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