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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's... →
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact... →
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not... →
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human... →
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate... →
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this... →
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our... →
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his... →
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.