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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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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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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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