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Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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The argument is at an end.

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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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