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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
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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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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.
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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted for both morning and evening were made in them.
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Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
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It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
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