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God is best known in not knowing him.

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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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My weight is my love.

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We come to God by love and not by navigation.

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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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