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Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
-Blaise Pascal
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Whilst In Speaking Of Human Things, We

Blaise Pascal
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
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