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Life of Father Hecker

CHAPTER VII
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The harmony of the two is the full and perfect existence; but the spiritual should always be preserved at the expense of the other, which is contrary to the tendency of the world, and perhaps even to that of this place.

I would prefer going hungry in body than in soul.

I am speaking against neither, for I believe in the fulness of life, in amply supplying all its wants; but the kingdom of God is more to me than this world.

I would be Plato in love, Zeno in self-strength, and Epicurus in aesthetics; but if I have to sacrifice either, let Epicurus go." "June 12 .-- At times I have an impulse to cry out, 'What wouldst Thou have me to do ?' I would shout up into the empty vault of heaven: 'Ah, why plaguest Thou me so?
What shall I do?
Give me an answer unless Thou wilt have me consumed by inward fre, drying up the living liquid of life.

Wouldst Thou have me to give up all?
I have.


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