Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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