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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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