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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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Love and say it with your life.

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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

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My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

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

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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