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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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Love God, then do what you will.

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

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

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

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