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He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

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And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Believe that you may understand.

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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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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

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