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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

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There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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