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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

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Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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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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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

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