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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

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Custom is second nature.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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Love God, then do what you will.

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

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And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

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