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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

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Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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