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Salman Rushdie quote: "Who hopes for an hour hopes for eternity. The world in an..."

Who hopes for an hour hopes for eternity. The world in an hour. What follows is unseen.

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To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ. Thomas Merton
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