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What is grace? I know until you ask me when you ask me, I do not know.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
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You can live, provided you live that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
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If you understand, it is not God.
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away the world is losing its grip the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.
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