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"In the absence of a good man, evil men will do as they please."
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him the greatest human achievement."
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
"What does it matter, if practice is right, although belief is wrong?"
"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
"I have often wished I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I cannot."
"If you are asked, 'What is time?' you may reply, 'If nobody asks me, I know what it is; if I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.'"
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"In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."
"The truest peace comes from a heart that is united with God."
"Man is a savage beast, if placed anywhere unmoved, his irrational part requires a instigation of passion."
"The soul is not ruled by its body. It rules the body."
"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect."
"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind commands itself and it is absurd."
"The only way to happiness is to embrace God."
"The power of prayer is in the willingness of the one who wants to pray."
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed."
"I am a bishop of the Church of Christ and a servant of the servants of Christ."
"Our hearts were made for you, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you."
"To love is to will the good of another."
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"An unjust law is no law at all."
"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
"Do not be deceived: the Lord your God is a jealous God."
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage."
"You must enter through the narrow gate."
"No one can be a good Christian without being a good citizen."
"Interpreters of scripture must be like the people of the world: they require an exactness of details."
"Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
"He who is not a good servant will never be a good master."
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
"A man is a rational animal; so, a woman is a rational animal, and a group is an association of rational animals."
"The purpose of all work is to lift up the human condition."
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
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"In the absence of evidence, we must not conclude that the evidence is absent."
"What does love look like? It has the eyes of compassion."
"To seek you is to seek everything; to find you is to find everything."
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man, which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
"If you are asking me who I am in my own dignity, I have no words to tell you; but if you are asking me who I am in your eyes, I am your servant."
"Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"To know God and to enjoy Him is the end of all things."
"The greatest good is to live in accordance with nature."
"I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order that I may understand."
"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
"What we love we shall grow to resemble."
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you wish to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
"The mind is more a theatre than a palace."
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; anger and courage."
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you."
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
"In order to discover the character of people, you must look and see how they behave in a time of controversy."
"Evil has no positive nature; but only the privation of good."
"We are Easter people and Alleluia is our song."
"What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now."
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
"If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
"A person is a person through other persons."
"Don't go outwardly seeking for happiness; the more you seek it the more elusive it becomes."
"The greatest evil is physical pain."
"When I am the most sure of my own judgments, that is when they are most often wrong."
"He who sings prays twice."
"To love is to be united in heart and spirit."
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don’t have time,' is like saying, 'I don’t want to.'"
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"He who knows himself knows God."
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
"To seek the highest good is to live well."
"The measure of love is to love without measure."
"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it's not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
"Our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
"The more we love our neighbors, the more we love God."
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
"What does it matter where I go? The important thing is that I go."
"Evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good is evil."
"Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself."
"For it is in giving that we receive."
"All of the things that truly matter, so long as we can see them, are so far beyond our control."
"I am a part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."
"That which is not just is not law."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."
"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinion, you will never be rich."
"You can't change the world, but you can change yourself."
"The glory of God is a human being fully alive."
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
"The greatest crime is not that of being a sinner, but rather that of denying your own sinfulness."
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
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