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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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