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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say God, what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
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The good man, though a slave, is free the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
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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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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self the heavenly by the love of God.
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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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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
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Love and say it with your life.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
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