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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

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Truth is not private property.

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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

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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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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

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