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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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

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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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

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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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