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“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”

Jeremy Taylor · Marriage

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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Loneliness

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Trust

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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Knowledge

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Knowledge