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“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
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“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
― The Imitation of Christ
― The Imitation of Christ
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
― The Imitation of Christ
― The Imitation of Christ
“Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is.”
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“For like a most skillful pilot, the reason of our father Eleazar steered the ship of religion over the sea of the emotions, and though buffeted by the stormings of the tyrant and overwhelmed by the mighty waves of tortures, in no way did he turn the rudder of religion until he sailed into the haven of immortal victory .”
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