Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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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.

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Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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

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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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