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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
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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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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love if you shout, you will shout with love if you correct, you will correct with love.
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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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What do I love when I love my God?
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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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