Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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

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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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