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Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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Believe that you may understand.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

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The argument is at an end.

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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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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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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