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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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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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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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He who labours, prays.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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