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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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Love and do as you will.

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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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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