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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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What do I love when I love my God?

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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