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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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The playthings of our elders are called business.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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