Mutual Love And Confidence

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“We must all be animated by a mutual love and confidence in one another. Perhaps next to confidence in God, these qualities will often be the only means to console and support us in our difficulties and hardships. Through harmony, small things grow; through dissension, great things are destroyed.”

BONIFACE WIMMER TO CLERICAL STUDENTS
Munich, February 19, 1846

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