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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
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Poetry is devil's wine.
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Doubt is but another element of faith.
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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
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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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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
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Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love if you spare, spare for love.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
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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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