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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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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
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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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If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
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The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).
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To my God a heart of flame To my fellow man a heart of love To myself a heart of steel.
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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance to seek him the greatest adventure to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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