"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
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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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"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within."
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"If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe."
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"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
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"Trust one who has tried."
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"All things deteriorate in time."
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"Time passes irrevocably."
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"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
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"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."
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"He enters the port with a full sail."
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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
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"In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ."
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"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."
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"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."
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"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned."
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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
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"He who has great power should use it lightly."
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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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