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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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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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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

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