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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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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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Give what You command and command what You will.

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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

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Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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

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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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