“Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.”

Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164

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French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

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