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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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Love and say it with your life.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

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I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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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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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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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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