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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
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This world's a bubble.
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
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Anger is a weed hate is a tree
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him He will welcome you and heal you.
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
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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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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
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