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Men and Saints Charles Peguy  GOD SPEAKS : When you love someone, you love him as he is. I alone am perfect. It is probably for that reason That I know what perfection is And that I demand less perfection of those poor people. I know how difficult it is. And how often, when they are struggling in their trials, How often do I wish and am I tempted to put my hand under their stomachs In order to hold them up with my big hand Just like a father teaching his son how to swim In the current of the river And who is divided between two ways of thinking. For on the one hand, if he holds him up all the time and if he holds him too much, The child will depend on this and will never learn how to swim. But if he doesn't hold him up just at the right moment That child is bound to swallow more water than is healthy for him. In the same way, when I teach them how to swim amid their trials I too am divided by two ways of thinking. Because if I ...

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