“If all men are in the likeness of God, why should I not love them all, why should I despise them? Should I not rather revere them? This is the reflection which must hold me back from in any way offending against my brothers, for I must remember that they are all made in the image of God and that perhaps their souls are more beautiful and dearer to God than my own.”—Angelo Roncalli (the future Pope John XXIII), diary entry for February 1900, in Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul, translated by Dorothy White (1965)
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