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reading this for AP Language and Composition

i can't find the edition i have on here oml :(

"Give yourself to me, my God; restore yourself to me. I show you my love, but if it is too little, give me strength to love you more."

"You are supreme above all, yet your dwelling is in the humble of heart."

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“Save me from the scorn of my enemies, for the price of my redemption is always in my thoughts. I eat it and drink it and minister it to others; and as one of the poor I long to be filled with it, to be one of those who eat and have their fill.
And those who look for the Lord will cry out in praise of him.”

“O Charity, my God, set me on fire with your love!”

“I spoke to all the things that are about me, all that can be admitted by the door of the senses, and I said, ‘Since you are not my God, tell me about him. Tell me something of my God.’ Clear and loud they answered, 'God is he who made us’ I asked these questions simply by gazing at these things, and their beauty was all the answer they gave.

"Eternal Truth, true Love, beloved Eternity - all this, my God, you are, and it is to you that I sigh by night and day. When i first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to be seen, but I also was not yet able to see it. I gazed upon you with eyes too weak to resist the dazzle of your splendor."

‘But not so fast! This life too is sweet. It has its own charms. They are not of small account and a man must not lightly undertake to detach his mind from them, because to return to them later would be a disgrace....

such a gentle and wise soul