Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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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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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

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