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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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The reward of patience Is patience.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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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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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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