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

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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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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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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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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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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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