While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

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In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.