The cross-carrying Christian… is both a confirmed pessimist and an optimist the like of which is to be found nowhere else on earth.1
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Strange as it may be, the holiest souls who have ever lived have earned the reputation for being pessimistic.2
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No, the unknown saints are not pessimists, nor are they misanthropes or joy-killers. They are by virtue of their godly faith the world’s only true optimists.3
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