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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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Attract them by the way you live.

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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

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The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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Make friends with angels.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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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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For in our hope we are saved.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

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You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

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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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