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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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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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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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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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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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God gives where he finds empty hands.

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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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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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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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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

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