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Charity is the root of all good works.

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

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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The verdict of the world is conclusive.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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

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War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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