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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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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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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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To sing is to pray twice.

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