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Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

Men

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People sometimes confuse their thoughts or ideas about feeling changed with actually having a deep emotional or spiritual transformation. They assume they have truly changed inside just because they have imagined or thought about the change.

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