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A constant dwelling on the sufferings of Christ and of the martyrs may produce in the emotional Christian an altogether admirable indifference to his own pains; but unless he is very careful to cultivate a compassion commensurate with his courage, he may end by becoming indifferent to the pains of others. The child who had sobbed so bitterly because they had hurt and killed poor Jesus was father of the man who fifty years later, did everything in his power to prolong a war which had already caused the death of hundreds of thousands of his fellow creatures and was reducing the survivors to cannibalism.
(of Father Joseph do Paris (1577-1638)
taken from:
Grey Eminence page 190
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