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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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I believe in order to understand

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

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

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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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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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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