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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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We come to God by love and not by navigation.

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Custom is second nature.

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It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

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What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

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