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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

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

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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