"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
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"A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent."
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"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."
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"The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world."
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"Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not."
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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"Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour."
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"You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not."
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"A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing."
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"Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways."
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"Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face."
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"The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven."
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"He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth."
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"O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread."
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"The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king."
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"The desire for fame tempts even noble minds."
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"The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil."
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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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"We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living."
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."
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