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You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

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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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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

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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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Truth is not private property.

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What do I love when I love my God?

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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

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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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