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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

You people of Vitebsk want to put me to death. You make ambushes for me everywhere, in the streets, on the bridges, on the highways, and in the marketplace. I am here among you...

Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. (Saint Martin of Tours, +397)

Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)

My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God in ourselves by works of evil. (Saint Caeserius of Arles,...

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of...

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (G.K. Chesterton)

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right. (G.K. Chesterton)

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