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" Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. "

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" Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. "

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" What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? "

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" Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. "

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" All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. "

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" Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. "