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Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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The reward of patience Is patience.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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