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To my God a heart of flame To my fellow man a heart of love To myself a heart of steel.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance to seek him the greatest adventure to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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That your enemies have been created is God's doing that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them! You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no mode that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.
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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted for both morning and evening were made in them.
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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