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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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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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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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Custom is second nature.

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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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