"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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"Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it."
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"True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity."
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"It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship."
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"Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?"
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"Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show."
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"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."
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"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
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"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands."
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"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints."
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"A saint belongs to all humanity."
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"What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth."
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"But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man."
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"I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not."
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"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
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"Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power."
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"Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer."
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"Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks."
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"If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions."
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"Hurry ruins saints as well as artists."
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