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"Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see."
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"With self discipline, self study is possible."

"Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever."

"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy."

"At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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