Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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

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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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

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

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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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