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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul. To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God. Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God. A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. If we look closely at this world, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is he, who, after all, commands the most fidelity and the most love. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.