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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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