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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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

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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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We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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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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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

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