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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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

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Love and say it with your life.

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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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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.

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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