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Loving Humility Can Subdue the World
January 26, 2023 · David McLemore · 1 min read

At the sight of men’s sins….always decide to use humble love. If you resolve to do that, once and for all, you can subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, page 270.
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