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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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Charity is the root of all good works.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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One loving heart sets another on fire.

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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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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