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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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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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

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The Devil invented gambling.

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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