It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
- Saint Augustine
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- O Lord my God,
tell me what you are to me.
Say to my soul,
I am your salvation.
Say it so...
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- No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is...
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- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
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