The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.Jeremy Taylor
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could
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In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.
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