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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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

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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

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