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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

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That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

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

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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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