"I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints."
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"O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!"
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"The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him."
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"A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented."
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"God, deliver me from sullen saints."
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"Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way."
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"I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me."
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"Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult."
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"All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else."
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"Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one."
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"It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut."
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"Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal."
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"All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs."
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"I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy."
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"But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society."
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"The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners."
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"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."
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"When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience."
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"Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern."
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"I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself."
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