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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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Give what You command and command what You will.

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The argument is at an end.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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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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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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