But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Don Van VlietAbout author
- Author's profession: Artist
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 15, 1941
- Died: December 17, 2010
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Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God
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