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Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

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To learn in order to know is scandalous curiosity.

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I am a kind of chimaera of my age, neither cleric nor layman.

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The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.

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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

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He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

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It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.

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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,

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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

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If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.

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One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.

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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

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There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

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Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

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Believe me who have tried. Thou wilt find something more in woods than in books. Trees and rocks will teach what thou canst not hear from a master.

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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

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That beast of the Apocalypse, to whom is given a mouth speaking blasphemies, and to make war with the saints, is sitting on the throne of Peter, like a lion ready for his prey.

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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

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