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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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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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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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