"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."

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"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."

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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

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"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."

"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"Conscience is God present in man."

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."