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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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I read there [in "certain books of the Platonists"] that God the Word was born "not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God." But, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" — I found this nowhere there.

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On the words of Ps. 21:3: "O My God, I shall cry day by day, and Thou wilt not hear".

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.

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Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....

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Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

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When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didn't want to have good works, he said, You believe God is one; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble. (Jas 2:19)

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is 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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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

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But the inner part is the better part; for to it, as both ruler and judge, all these messengers of the senses report the answers of heaven and earth and all the things therein, who said, "We are not God, but he made us." My inner man knew these things through the ministry of the outer man, and I, the inner man, knew all this — I, the soul, through the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of earth about my God, and it answered, "I am not he, but he made me."

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God, grant us men to see in a small thing principles which are common things both small and great.

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Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.

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It is a singing to the praise of God. If you praise God, and do not sing, you utter no hymn. If you sing, and praise no God, you utter no hymn. If you praise anything which does not pertain to the praise of God, though in singing you praise, you utter no hymn.
Defining a hymn

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