Above all, he sees Lispector as a latter-day cabbalist for whom utterance itself is the act of creation: for her, God is among those thus created.

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Even many not directly affected by the tsunami are feeling disadvantaged such as those displaced for years, not by an act of God, but by an all-too-human war.

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We unite, recognizing that such crises call on all of us to act, recognizing that there but for the grace of God go I, recognizing that life's most sacred responsibility -- one affirmed, as Hillary said, by all of the world's great religions -- is to sacrifice something of ourselves for a person in need.

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"All of us have understood that it is precisely the deep love that your holiness has for God and the church which pushed you to this act, " he said.

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