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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love if you speak, speak by love if you correct, correct by love if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
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Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Every city is a living body.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.
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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
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