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What do I love when I love my God?


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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.



The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.



The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.



The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.



Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.



I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.



Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.



For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?



I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.



Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.





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If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?



By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.



I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.



I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.



I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.



I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.



Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.



Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.



They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.



The deed of love is stronger than words

The deed of love is stronger than words




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