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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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

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

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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