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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Love and say it with your life.
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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
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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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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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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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In the house of God there is never ending festival the angel choir makes eternal holiday the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
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